Deadline: 31 May 2016
\nCall for entries<\/p>\n
# 9th Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs2016)<\/p>\n
Held in conjunction with the 16th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
\nJuly 22, 2016 – Darmstadt, Germany<\/p>\n
The Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs) fosters new ideas and spirited debates on privacy. We are calling for engaging and informative 10-15 minute talks on hot topics in privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), with each talk to be followed by a 5-10 minute question period. Short, written talk proposals should be sent by May 13th, 2016, to <hotpets16@petsymposium.org<\/a>> (details below). The nature of HotPETs’ discussion-oriented format is especially suited to works in progress and new ideas that have not yet been fully formed.<\/p>\n # Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n * Anonymous communications and publishing systems # Who should submit:<\/p>\n We invite submissions from activists, artists, developers, journalists, * Researcher describing recent research results or a work in progress,
\n * Censorship resistance
\n * Challenges in deploying PETs
\n * Cryptographic protocols with application to privacy
\n * Economics of PETs
\n * Genetic privacy
\n * Human computer interaction with PETs
\n * Impact of PETs in the wild
\n * Interdisciplinary privacy
\n * Legal issues surrounding PETs
\n * Location privacy
\n * Online surveillance
\n * Privacy and identity management
\n * Privacy-enhanced access control and authentication
\n * Privacy in databases
\n * Privacy in social networks
\n * Public policy regulating the use and development of PETs
\n * Usability of PETs
\n * User studies of PETs<\/p>\n
\nlawyers, public servants, researchers, scholars, and any others who can
\ngive a compelling, novel talk about privacy and privacy-enhancing
\ntechnologies. PETS and HotPETS attract world-renowned experts on the
\nresearch, development, and practice of PETs. If you are excited to give
\na talk to such a group, and you think they would be excited to hear it,
\nthen you should submit. Some example talks:<\/p>\n
\nespecially on a novel or newly-important topic in privacy or security
\n * Experiences from an activist working with PETs “on the ground”
\n * Software developer describing a recent experience with a
\nprivacy-enhancing tool they built
\n * Government official discussing interactions between technology and
\nthe development of privacy or security-related policy<\/p>\n