VP-IP Chair Newsletter N°25 – July 2025
VP-IP Chair - Four research areas for responsible and sovereign digital transformation
Personal data is both a strategic asset and a subject of vigilance, affecting the image, reputation, and interactions of companies with their stakeholders. With the GDPR, the European digital identity wallet, and new data governance, the European Union is questioning its sovereignty and deploying digital spaces based on trust, aiming to protect the fundamental rights of individuals, states, and companies.
The VP-IP Chair proposes to address these issues through four research areas defined for the period 2025-2027.
VP-IP Chair Newsletter N°24 – May 2025
VP-IP Chair Webinar - AI of the Enlightenment: for the ethical development of AI
Tuesday May 6, 2025
During this webinar, Francis Jutand, a qualified member of the VP-IP Chair Steering Committee, presented the highlights of his report, which explores a bold vision: building ethical, sovereign and sustainable AI, reaffirming the Enlightenment values of humanism and progress. An AI that can and must become a lever for human progress, democratic access to knowledge and ecological respect.
The report was then discussed by Mark Hunyadi, Professor of Social, Moral and Political Philosophy at UC Louvain.
The European Digital Identity Wallet: a major change for individuals and businesses
January 28, 2025
In this interview, Claire Levallois-Barth, coordinator of the VP-IP Chair, describes the challenges posed by the European Digital Identity Wallet, scheduled for November 2026. This digital tool, recognized throughout the EU, should enable individuals and companies to exercise control over their digital identity and, most importantly, their data.
49th workshop - What decisions do we entrust to our digital identity?
Tuesday, November 5, 2024, online, by invitation only
The aim of this workshop will be to delve into what theoretically results from an analysis of the digital posited as a decision-making machine, and how the “trust” we place in this machine is articulated.
In particular, Jean-Baptiste Ghins, a PhD student in philosophy, will present an argument covering two issues: (1) what experience of decision-making is “entrusted” to platforms, and (2) to what extent our digital identity can be understood as the medium that guarantees these decisions legitimacy.
Clever Cloud joins the VP-IP Chair as a sponsor
May 2024
Clever Cloud publishes a Platform as a Service, PaaS, based in Europe. Its aim is to help development teams put digital applications and services into production, on a reliable, scalable and secure infrastructure, with transparent pricing.
Conference replay - Data and trust: users in the middle of the road
May 31, 2024
This 24th meeting was organized by the Values and Policies of Personal Information Chair, in partnership with SNCF's Living Lab 5G project. It provided an opportunity to present and discuss the results of the survey carried out with Médiamétrie on French people's perceptions of how their personal data is used. The survey, which involved more than 2,000 people, was conducted in a complex post-Covid context.
Working Paper - Players in the technical ecosystem for digital identities
January 2024
This working paper, written by Claire Levallois-Barth and Maryline Laurent, describes the role of the main players in the technical ecosystem for digital identities, whether it's the ecosystem as a whole (part 1), the specific ecosystem resulting from the eIDAS 1 regulation (EU) (part 2) or the ecosystem currently being defined under the future “Digital Identity” regulation (EU) (also known as the eIDAS 2 regulation).
How to prepare for the European Digital Identity Wallet?
April 2023
In this April 5, 2023 interview at the International Cybersecurity Forum, Claire Levallois-Barth explains the implications for businesses of the updated European eIDAS regulation on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions, and the forthcoming arrival of the little-known European Digital Identity Wallet.
A European Digital Identity Wallet
March 2023
On March 22, Claire Levallois-Barth spoke of “A European digital identity wallet for all EU citizens and residents: contributions, risks and guarantees”, at the invitation of the Cybersecurity for Critical Networked Infrastructures Chair.
Souha Masmoudi's thesis defense
October 2022
On December 9, 2022, Souha Masmoudi will defend her thesis entitled “Technologies malléables préservant la vie privée pour des systèmes de gestion des identités respectueux de la vie privée” at Télécom SudParis, 9 Rue Charles Fourier, at 2pm in the Salle des Conseils, Bâtiment Étoile.
Privacy & Competition
September 2022
The annual conference of the European Association for Industrial Economics was held on August 25 and 26, 2022 in Vienna, Austria. On this occasion, Patrick Waelbroeck presented the paper “Privacy and Competition” co-authored with fellow economists David Bounie and Antoine Dubus.
Jean-Baptiste Ghins, new PhD student in philosophy at the VP-IP Chair
May 2022
Jean-Baptiste Ghins studied philosophy at UCLouvain (Belgium), and specialized in contemporary philosophy during a master's degree at ENS Paris, concluding in 2021.
The VP-IP Chair welcomes three new associate researchers
January 2022
The VP-IP Chair is delighted to welcome three new associate researchers in computer science to strengthen our international presence and activities: Josep Domingo-Ferrer, (Professor of Computer Science at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia), Sophie Chabridon (Director of Computer Science Studies at Télécom SudParis), and Nathanaël Denis (PhD student at Télécom SudParis).
Conference Autonomous vehicles: ethical issues
December 2021
This 23rd Conference was devoted to the Avis du Comité national pilote d'éthique du numérique (CNPEN) on autonomous vehicles, presented by its two rapporteurs Raja Chatila and Catherine Tessier.
Xavier Delache, deputy director of studies and foresight at the French Ministry of Ecological Transition, detailed the national strategy for the development of automated road mobility.
Research Report Data Protection Impact Assessment: the case of connected cars
November 2021
This report, written by Claire Levallois (Professor of Law at IMT/Télécom Paris, Coordinator of the VP-IP Chair) and Jonathan Keller (Research Engineer in Law at Télécom Paris) is based on a practical case (called “Biomem”) to which four impact analysis methodologies are applied: the French CNIL and Priam, the German BSI and the US NIST methodologies.)
The third part, legal, deals with the judicialization of risks linked to personal data.
Conference Data Protection Impact Assessment: the case of connected cars
November 2021
This 22nd Conference presented the research report Analyse d'impact relative à la Protection des Données : le cas des voitures connectées (Data Protection Impact Analysis: the case of connected cars) written by Claire Levallois (Lecturer in Law at IMT/Télécom Paris, Coordinator of the VP-IP Chair) and Jonathan Keller (Research Engineer in Law at Télécom Paris) and its companion document.
With contributions from Florian Damas (Nokia), Thomas Moreau (CNIL), Antonio Kung (Trialog) and Cidalia Beleza (Renault).
Seminar Socio-philosophy of the present time Epistemological, methodological and critical issues
Thursday, June 10, 2021
Trust and confidence in the present time
With contributions by Mark Hunyadi (Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at Université Catholique de Louvain), Thierry Ménissier (Professor of Philosophy at Université Grenoble Alpes), Valérie Charolles (Researcher in Philosophy at IMT-BS) and Pierre-Antoine Chardel, (Professor of Philosophy at IMT-BS).
Conference Au début est la confiance
Thursday, March 11, 2021
This 21st Conference was organized to mark the release of the book "Au début est la confiance" by Mark Hunyadi (Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy), who presented its fundamental ideas.
With presentations by Maryline Laurent (Professor of Computer Science at Télécom Sud-Paris), Patrick Waelbroeck (Professor of Industrial Economics and Econometrics at Télécom Paris), and Claire Levallois-Barth (Lecturer-Researcher in Law at IMT/Télécom Paris, Coordinator of the VP-IP Chair).
Executive summary N°1: Calling for the recognition of a right to multiple digital identities
January 28, 2021
The Values and Policies of Personal Information research Chair of the Mines-Télécom Institute provides a new content format: the executive summary.
This first issue summarises the arguments developed by Claire Levallois-Barth in her article "For the recognition of a right to multiple digital identities".
This 18-page article was published in December 2020 in a book published by Editions Larcier following the Study Day of the Institute of Private Law, University of Toulouse Capitale (France): "L'identité numérique : quelle définition pour quelle protection"(Digital identity: what definition for what protection?) of 12 December 2019.
Study VP-IP Chair - Médiamétrie : "Personal Data en trust: how have post-GDPR perceptions and uses evolved?"
October 31, 2019
The Values and Policies of Personal Information research Chair of the Mines-Télécom Institute, together with French audience measurement company Médiamétrie, has conducted a survey on the way French internet users manage their personal data. The survey, carried out in May 2019, aims to extend the one published in 2017.
A presentation of the study followed by a round table discussion took place at the 18th Meeting of the Chair on October 31, 2019, Paris (in French).
International workshop on the Data Economy: Data Brokers and competition
June 12, 2019
This international workshop on data economics organized by the team of the Chair Values and Policies of Personal Information focused on data brokers' strategies and their impact on the markets. Issues related to data collection and competition were addressed.
With the contributions of Alexis Walckiers (Chief Economist of the Belgian competition authority), Patrick Waelbroeck (Télécom Paris), Heli Koski (ETLA), Télécom Paris, Paris (France).
Handbook N°2 - Signs of trust: What impact can labels have on the management of our personal data?
March 11, 2018
In this report, the Chair Values and Policies of Personal Information tackles the issue of trust from 4 multidisciplinary perspectives: legal, technical, economical and philosophical. Trust, as the foundation of any society, underpins all institutional and commercial exchanges as well as the role these exchanges play in building a cohesive social body. Yet we are currently experiencing a crisis of trust most likely enabled by digital technologies, since the social ties preceding digital commercial exchanges are not old or strong enough and consumers are not always aware of the “quality” of digital goods, even after consumption.
What are different forms of trust, and how are they changing?