The Information Revolution has thoroughly transformed society. One of the major implications of this technological shift has been a massive increase in the collection, sharing, and analysis of personal data. The goal of this workshop is to discuss the privacy problems that result as well as their solutions. This will be the 17th occurrence of this annual forum, which is held in conjunction with the ACM CCS conference.

The workshop seeks submissions from academia, government, and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of electronic privacy, as well as experimental studies of fielded systems. We encourage submissions from other communities such as law and business that present these communities' perspectives on technological issues.

Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Regular submissions should be at most 12 pages in the ACM double-column format excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions should be anonymized. The workshop will also consider short submissions of up to 4 pages for results that are preliminary or that simply require few pages to describe. Authors of regular submitted papers will indicate at the time of submission whether they would like their paper to also be considered for publication as a short paper (4 proceedings pages).

Submissions are to be made on EasyChair. You will be requested to upload the file of your paper (in PDF format only). Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of July 25, 2018 to be considered. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by August 17, 2018. The camera ready must be prepared by August 21, 2018. Proceedings of the workshop will be published by ACM on a CD, available to the workshop attendees. Papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library, with a specific ISBN. Each accepted paper must be presented by an author, who will have to be registered by the early-bird registration deadline.

List of Topics

• attacks on data privacy
• bias and fairness in machine learning
• biometrics privacy
• blockchain and cryptocurrency privacy
• communication privacy
• data anonymization
• data-protection schemes
• data security
• deanonymization
• definitions of privacy
• economics of privacy
• hardware side channels
• human rights and privacy
• Internet of Things privacy
• location privacy
• machine-learning privacy
• medical privacy
• mobile-device privacy
• privacy and digital identity
• private data analysis
• privacy-enhancing technologies
• privacy policies
• privacy threats
• private data publishing
• social-network privacy
• usable privacy technologies
• user profiling
• Web privacy

Committees

Program Committee

• Chair: Aaron Johnson (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
• Backup chair: Ryan Henry (University of Calgary, USA)
• Sadia Afroz (International Computer Science Institute, USA)
• Aylin Caliskan (Princeton University, USA)
• Eric Chan-Tin (Loyola University, USA)
• George Danezis (University College London, United Kingdom)
• Anupam Das (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
• Simson Garfinkel (U.S. Census Bureau, USA)
• Cesar Ghali (Google, USA)
• Xi He (Duke University & University of Waterloo, USA, Canada)
• Ryan Henry (University of Calgary, Canada)
• Nicholas Hopper (University of Minnesota, USA)
• Suman Jana (Columbia University, USA)
• Limin Jia (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Marc Juarez (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Murat Kantarcioglu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
• Apu Kapadia (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
• Aniket Kate (Purdue University, USA)
• Stefan Katzenbeisser (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
• Florian Kerschbaum (University of Waterloo, Canada)
• Albert Kwon (MIT, USA)
• Peeter Laud (Cybernetica, Estonia)
• Ada Lerner (Wellesley College, USA)
• Yifang Li (Clemson University, USA)
• Changchang Liu (IBM Research & Princeton University, USA)
• Wouter Lueks (EPFL, Switzerland)
• Allison Mankin (Salesforce & IRTF, USA)
• Piotr Mardziel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Travis Mayberry (U.S. Naval Academy, USA)
• Jonathan Mayer (Princeton University, USA)
• Sebastian Meiser (University College London, United Kingdom)
• Ian Miers (Cornell Tech, USA)
• Aziz Mohaisen (University of Central Florida, USA)
• Pedro Moreno-Sanchez (Purdue University, USA)
• Shirin Nilizadeh (Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, USA)
• Rishab Nithyanand (Data & Society Research Institute, USA)
• Andriy Panchenko (Brandenburg Technical University, Germany)
• Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA)
• Joel Reardon (University of Calgary, Canada)
• Kui Ren (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
• Alfredo Rial (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
• Max Schuchard (University of Tennessee , USA)
• Aaron Segal (Google, USA)
• Zubair Shafiq (University of Iowa, USA)
• Mahmood Sharif (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Paul Syverson (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
• Wajih Ul Hassan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• Eugene Vasserman (Kansas State University, USA)
• Tao Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
• Susanne Wetzel (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
• Christo Wilson (Northeastern University, USA)
• Arkady Yerukhimovich (MIT Lincoln Laboratory & George Washington University, USA)
• Nan Zhang (Penn State University, USA)

Steering committee

• Chair: Pierangela Samarati (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
• Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
• Sushil Jajodia (George Mason University, USA)
• Paul Syverson (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA)

Venue

The conference will be co-located with ACM CCS 2018 in Toronto, Canada.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the Program Chair.