Building digital protection
that works for humans.
ADPC is an interdisciplinary initiative at the intersection of data protection law, computer science, human-computer interaction, cognitive science, information systems and digital-rights advocacy. Its goal: make digital rights easier to exercise, easier to respect and harder to manipulate.
Origin
ADPC began as a collaboration between the Sustainable Computing Lab at Vienna University of Economics and Business and noyb in the RESPECTeD project, with support from netidee. That origin matters: ADPC was built from the beginning as a law-aware, implementation-oriented and public-interest mechanism.
Values
- Human-compatible: designed around real human capabilities and limits.
- Rights-first: technical design follows legal rights, not the other way around.
- Interdisciplinary: law, technology, design and society must work together.
- Open: public specification, open discussion and implementation collaboration.
- Future-ready: web, IoT, mixed reality and AI-mediated environments all need rights infrastructure.
Who should join
ADPC welcomes policymakers, regulators, standards experts, browser and operating-system developers, CMPs, CMSs, publishers, service providers, digital-rights NGOs, accessibility experts, child-rights organisations, academics, journalists and anyone working toward human-compatible digital protection.
Join the work.
Contribute code, run a pilot, review the specification, support standardisation, evaluate usability, write about ADPC or invite the team for a briefing.