Solid Symposium 2026 - Call for Contributions to the Privacy & Personal Data Management Session

Dear colleagues,



The 4th Privacy & Personal Data Management Session of the Solid Symposium 2025 aims to bring together computer scientists and legal-ethical experts to discuss Solid as a concrete system for data governance, in order to ground the debate on emergent problems from both a technical and legal perspective.



In this edition, we aim to continue the discussions around technical and legal privacy aspects that should be incorporated into Solid. We aim to draw from a broad interdisciplinary perspective on privacy and personal data management, including human-centric perspectives on privacy and the emergence of personal data spaces and digital wallets. Towards this aim, the programme will be a mix of flash talks from extended abstracts and presentations of short papers to showcase the current state of research and trajectories in privacy-related research in Solid.



Click here for the full Call for Contributions and submission instructions<https://besteves4.github.io/sosy2026-privacy/>.



== Important Dates ==

Deadline for submissions: 8 February 2026

Notifications by: 20 February 2026

Solid Symposium: 30 April & 1 May 2026



For questions and further information, please contact the organisers at beatriz.esteves@ugent.be.



All the best and looking forward to hearing from you,

Beatriz Esteves, Ghent University, Belgium

Marc Florea, University of Groningen, Netherlands