As in previous years, CPDP.ai reserves several slots in its program for the annual Call for Papers. We invite researchers from various disciplines to submit their work for presentation at the upcoming conference, where we welcome fresh insights on the main conference theme and related subjects. The Call for Papers is divided into two tracks: one for experienced scholars, such as postdoctoral researchers and professors, and another for PhD students and early-career researchers. This dual-track structure responds to the growing interest from researchers of all levels and disciplines in CPDP.ai and their expectations for constructive feedback and exchange.
If your submission is selected, you must register for the conference and to present the paper during the academic sessions. One author per paper will receive free access to the entire conference. Travel grants may be available for PhD candidates facing financial constraints.
Please carefully read the submission instructions below before submitting your contribution via the webform by 24th January 2025.
The theme of CPDP.ai 2025 is “The World is Watching”. This provocative title will turn the spotlight towards the increasing challenges that surveillance and mass data collection bring with it, and to the enactment of contemporary digital legislation by the European Union and the global repercussions thereof. The EU has been the first global actor to comprehensively regulate new digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence, while it is also proactively introducing new elements into the digital world, like Data Spaces. Such developments will play a serious role in the formation of specific social constructs in the upcoming years. Perhaps more than ever, EU digital policy will cast shadows across the world.
Recent regulatory developments in the EU are accompanied by many questions and concerns. Will the Brussels Effect proliferate, or increasingly challenged? What other challenges arise from the interconnectedness and competition between actors in the digital world? What are alternative regulatory responses to privacy, data governance, data protection and AI (to name a few)? Is there a risk of overregulation that could hinder global innovation and competitiveness? How are end products and consumers affected? Can experience and existing work in data protection and privacy help us grasp the potential global impact of recent European legal developments? To avoid making similar mistakes, how can we learn from known challenges and continuing struggles in implementing and enforcing digital regulation? What are the implications of regulators, civil society, policymakers, and industry that are competitive but interdependent, constantly observing each other to learn and outperform?
RELEVANT FIELDS AND TOPICS
The CPDP.ai Scientific Committee invites papers in the fields of law, social sciences, philosophy, computer science and many other fields. Multidisciplinary perspectives are especially welcome. Research at the intersection of computer science and privacy, as well as topics concerning data protection officers, will also be particularly welcomed this edition. Follow this link to find out more about the topics of CPDP.ai 2025’s call for panels or this link for more information about the topics presented at previous editions of CPDP.
If you have any questions regarding the suitability of a contribution for the conference, please contact Manos Roussos.
KEY DATES
Authors responding to this Call for Papers are asked to submit a full paper via the dedicated submission form, together with a short abstract and up to 5 keywords. Authors are asked to indicate the relevant research discipline and must choose between the junior and the senior track. In case of papers co-authored by both junior and senior researchers, we advise you to decide on the basis of the first author. The CPDP.ai organisers reserve a right to combine presentations of papers submitted within the junior and senior tracks in the joint panels.
Papers should be between 6,000 and 12,000 words in length, including footnotes and bibliography. Papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process. Authors should make use of the Chicago reference style (Notes-Bibliography system). The text of the paper shall not include the name of the author(s), and all self-references should be deleted. This also concerns project and funding information. The abstracts should be up to 500 words in length, with no footnotes or bibliography contained therein. Submissions not meeting these criteria risk rejection without consideration of quality. Submissions must be submitted as pdf documents, which shall be titled after the submitters’ last name(s) and title of the paper. Please note that the original submission must not have been published or submitted for publication prior to the conference.
Papers will be selected on the basis of their quality. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed and commented upon by members of the CPDP.ai Scientific Committee and other distinguished scholars.
The selected papers are expected to be presentedby their authors in the academic sessions of the conference. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference: at least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the conference and to present the paper.
The presentation of the selected papers is an important part of the academic sessions. With a view of fostering interesting discussions, selected authors are encouraged to create dynamic presentations.
Selected authors – one for each paper – will therefore receive free entrance for the duration of the conference. Funding for travel expenses may be available for PhD Candidates who cannot cover their own costs. If you require funding, please get in touch.
Accepted papers will automatically be put forward for publication in this year’s Conference Book, published by Hart Publishing. Authors who are accepted to present their papers at the academic sessions of the conference are expected to publish these in the book – provided they are afterwards accepted for publication from the publisher.
Sixteen books based on papers presented at previous CPDP conferences have been published, and a 17th edition is currently in production.
CPDP.ai would like to create a platform where all people passionate about computers, privacy and data protection can meet. If you are a social, political or computer scientist, activist, policy maker, lawyer, ICT expert or passionate person interested in being a speaker or getting involved in next year’s conference, please notify the Organising Committee at the following address: info@cpdpconferences.org
