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This year's Erlanger Cybercrime Tag will deal with legal tech in criminal proceedings – opportunities, risks and prospects. It takes place on March 12 and 13, 2026 in Erlangen. For further information, posters, flyers and the contact form for registration, please refer to the event page. The event w...

RTG PostDoc Dr. Johanna Hahn appeared as a guest on the "Jura und KI" Podcast and talks about the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in criminal investigations. She explains the legal requirements that shape the use of AI in law enforcement and sheds light on important aspects that often...

How does the German Police use data mining software, and what are the risks associated with Palantir's data mining software? RTG expert Felix Freiling shares some insights on this topic in a story by ZDF journalist Moritz Neuß which was broadcast in ZDF heute journal on Friday, 16.1.2026.

PostDoc Dr. Johanna Hahn received the Dr.-Heinz-Sebiger-Preis 2025 for excellent dissertations by DATEV-Stiftung Zukunft in recognition of her dissertation Automatisierte Gesichtserkennung in der Strafverfolgung (“Automated Facial Recognition in Criminal Investigations”). This Prize is awarded annua...

The workshop/bootcamp "Women in Forensic Computing" goes into its next iteration alongside the DFRWS EU 2026 conference in Linköping, Sweden on March 23, 2026. The workshop will include a sequence of presentations and panels by women that introduce some fundamental and current topics of the field an...

RTG-funded researcher Lisa Marie Dreier received the best paper award at the fifth annual DFRWS APAC 2025 conference for the paper "Creating a Standardized Corpus for Digital Stratigraphic Methods with fsstratify" which she co-authored with Julian Uthoff, Martin Lambertz, Mariia Rybalka and Felix Fr...

PostDoc Dr. Johanna Hahn has been awarded the Preis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kriminalistik in recognition of her dissertation Automatisierte Gesichtserkennung in der Strafverfolgung (“Automated Facial Recognition in Criminal Investigations”). Before that, she received the Dr. Feldbausch-Preis ...

The lecture series on "Cybercrime and Forensic Computing" starts again on October 14, 2025. It features six introductory lectures on foundational topics of the field. Lectures will be held hybrid, physically at Juridicum (Schillerstr. 1, 91054 Erlangen) in the rooms given below, and online via Zoom....

During the infrastructure workshop on October 28, 2025, the funded researchers of the third cohort actively engaged with the website of the RTG and had the possibility to create (and delete) their own news items. The workshop was part of the on-boarding process for new RTG members. One of the most i...

The annual Cybercrime Workshop of the RTG took place from September 15-19, 2025, at Forschungscampus Waischenfeld, giving all members of the RTG the chance to interact and discuss their research. In 2025, the newly hired members of the third cohort of funded researchers attended for the first time. ...