Dear AoIR Listserv Subscribers, We would like to bring your attention to a new topical collection in Digital Society (Springer), which was just completed. The topical collection is on the theme of "privacy-friendly and trustworthy technology for society". It includes six exciting articles on generative AI in journalism, geoprivacy, the concept of balance in active and assisted living, debiasing strategies for conversational AI, thermal imaging in robotics, and anonymization/pseudonymization in European data protection law. Here is the link to the full topical collection: [1]https://link.springer.com/collections/ccfheehheh And here are the titles, authors and links of the six articles: 1) "Ethical Guidelines for the Application of Generative AI in German Journalism" by Lennart Hofeditz, Anna-Katharina Jung, Milad Mirbabaie and Stefan Stieglitz [2]https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-024-00151-w 2) "Probing for Privacy: A Digital Design Method to Support Reflection of Situated Geoprivacy and Trust" by Jessica Megarry, Peta Mitchell, Markus Rittenbruch, Yu Kao, Bryce Christensen and Marcus Foth [3]https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-023-00083-x 3) "A Concept of Balance of Interest in the Context of Active Assisted Living" by Maksymilian Michał Kuźmicz [4]https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-023-00080-0 4) "Debiasing Strategies for Conversational AI: Improving Privacy and Security Decision-Making" by Anna Leschanowsky, Birgit Popp and Nils Peters [5]https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-023-00062-2 5) "Thermal Imaging in Robotics as a Privacy-Enhancing or Privacy-Invasive Measure? Misconceptions of Privacy when Using Thermal Cameras in Robots" by Naomi Lintvedt [6]https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-023-00060-4 6) "From Privacy-Enhancing to Health Data Utilisation: The Traces of Anonymisation and Pseudonymisation in EU Data Protection Law" by Zhicheng He [7]https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-023-00043-5 And here is the editorial (open access) by Anton Fedosov, Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux, Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Anto Čartolovni and me (Christoph Lutz), contextualizing the topical collection, summarizing the articles, calling for interdisciplinary perspectives, and providing directions for future research: [8]https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-025-00167-w Best regards, Christoph Lutz (in the name also of the other topical collection editors: Anton Fedosov, Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux, Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Anto Čartolovni) References 1. https://link.springer.com/collections/ccfheehheh 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-024-00151-w 3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-023-00083-x 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-023-00080-0 5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-023-00062-2 6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-023-00060-4 7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-023-00043-5 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-025-00167-w