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TWINT Was Just the Beginning: Toward a Scalable, Privacy-Respecting Digital Receipt Infrastructure for Switzerland

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Switzerland has launched digital revolutions: TWINT reshaped mobile payments, and QR-bill invoicing redefined how the nation pays its bills.…
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Secure and trustworthy data rooms – a factual tour d’horizon

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The 17th Conference on IT and Law took place on 26 August at Bern City Hall and was dedicated to the topic of data rooms from a regulatory and…
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Data shared – control gone? Not with EmpowerID

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Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) allows personal data to be shared in a targeted manner. But once the data has been handed over, control is over.…
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Building Competences for a Responsible Digital Future: The DIRECT Project

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As the digitalization of our society and business world is advancing rapidly, technologies are reshaping how we work, learn, and communicate,…
ALC 2025

BFH Applied Machine Intelligence at ACL 2025

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The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) took place from July 27 to August 1, 2025, at the Austria…
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True or False? How artificial intelligence is making it increasingly difficult to discern reality

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The increasing spread of artificial intelligence and digital communication poses new challenges for human rights. Different value and legal systems…

It started in Murten – the goal is a Swiss e-government architecture

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Switzerland wants an e-government architecture. This article explains why this project is so important.  What it is about The organisational…
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Smart Cities and the Data Challenge: Balancing Innovation with Privacy

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Smart cities promise to revolutionize urban life through data-driven solutions, but at what cost? While cities worldwide implement sensors and…
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Enhanced learning through smart reflection

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Reflective writing is more than a diary exercise; it is a structured task that helps learners transform experience into knowledge. In the Process…