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SUMMARY:Towards Digital Sovereignty in the Age of Hyper-giants - Vaibhav B
 ajpai\, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security\,
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CONTACT:Srinivasan Keshav
DESCRIPTION:The Internet was initially designed to be a decentralized syst
 em\, but in recent decades has transitioned towards an increasingly centra
 lized ecosystem where majority of the Internet traffic is brokered through
  large content-delivery hyper-giants. In the first half of my talk\, I wil
 l present a long-term perspective on the growth and ubiquity of hyper-gian
 ts\, and their push towards providing new services traditionally delivered
  by Internet service providers (ISPs). Consequently\, more content is gett
 ing centralised\, and is leading to increased security and privacy concern
 s. In the second half of my talk\, I will speak about how we can combat th
 is centralisation trend\, and instead pivot towards digital sovereignty. I
  will present how new foundations can be built and deployed using upcoming
  secure and privacy enhancing protocols to give back users control of thei
 r data when using traditional network services\, and eventually the Web.\n
 \nBio:\nVaibhav Bajpai is an independent research group leader at CISPA He
 lmholtz Center for Information Security\, Hannover. Previously\, he was a 
 senior researcher at the Department of Computer Science at the Technical U
 niversity of Munich. He received his PhD (2016) and Masters (2012) degrees
  from Jacobs University Bremen. He is the recipient of the best of CCR awa
 rd (2019)\, ACM SIGCOMM best paper award (2018)\, and IEEE CNOM best disse
 rtation award (2017). He is also the recipient of the Preis für die beste
  Lehre (2020) awarded by the Department of Computer Science at TUM. His cu
 rrent research focuses on improving Internet operations (e.g.\, performanc
 e\, security\, and privacy) using data-intensive methods and by building r
 eal-world systems and models.\n
LOCATION:https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97216272378?pwd=M2diTFhMTnppckJtNW
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