Best Presentation Award at IFIP Summer School 2025
Best Presentation Award at IFIP Summer School 2025 (H1)
Nicola Leschke (University of Salzburg, FB AIHI / Exdigit) received one of two best presentation awards at IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management 2025 (LINK: https://ifip-summerschool.github.io/), which was held in beautiful Copenhagen, Denmark.
Engineering Personal Data Access
The presentation was titled “Engineering Personal Data Access: A Procedural Perspective on Challenges and Solutions” and addresses a critical gap in data protection: while GDPR Article 15 grants individuals the right to access copies of their personal data, the practical implementation remains overly complex for both data subjects and controllers. Despite rising interest in data subject access rights from both research and industry, technical contributions towards more usable personal data access remains limited or specific to certain stakeholders. Hence, the presentation introduced:
- A comprehensive process model mapping all stakeholders and tasks in data access requests.
- A systematic categorization of technical challenges across the entire access lifecycle.
- On that basis, we discuss concrete technical solutions to bridge the gap between legal requirements and practical implementation.
In order to be selected for presentation, the contributions have been reviewed based on an extended abstract. In the near future, the presented findings and the feedback from the summer school audience is used to finalize a paper with the same title, that will undergo peer review and is expected to be published in the summer school proceeding (as part of the IFIPAICT series).
The IFIP Summer School
The IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management is a venue to encourage young researchers in interdisciplinary privacy and data protection research, highlighting the need for exchange and collaboration in this domain. The multidisciplinary approach is also evident by the choice of best presentation awards, which were rewarded both in the discipline of computer science and legal research. While our Nicola Leschke was honoured with the best computer science presentation award, Maria Skwarcan (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw) received the award for her presentation “Pay or Consent Under the DMA: Genuine Progress or Illusory Victory Against Data Commodification?”.
