Call for Papers
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 19th 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, and systematization of knowledge (SoK) submissions. We encourage submissions from other communities such as law and business that present these communities’ perspectives on technological issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- attacks on data privacy
- location privacy
- bias and fairness in machine learning
- machine-learning privacy
- biometrics privacy
- medical privacy
- blockchain and cryptocurrency privacy
- mobile-device privacy
- communication privacy
- privacy and digital identity
- data anonymization
- private data analysis
- data-protection schemes
- privacy-enhancing technologies
- data security
- privacy policies
- deanonymization
- privacy threats
- definitions of privacy
- private data publishing
- economics of privacy
- social-network privacy
- hardware side channels
- usable privacy technologies
- human rights and privacy
- user profiling
- Internet of Things privacy
- web privacy
Paper Submissions
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 (specifically, the sigconf 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 (excluding bibliography) 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 pages).
Submissions are to be made on the submission site. 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 23, 2020 to be considered. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by August 26, 2019. The camera ready must be prepared by September 13, 2019. 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.
CCS Notification Extension. Because of the delay in the notification of ACM CCS, we will accept submissions of papers to WPES that are still under consideration for CCS. These papers must be submitted by the regular deadline just like other papers. In addition, they must check the corresponding box in HotCRP; and authors must notify the chairs about the CCS decision outcome within 24 hours of CCS notification. Any papers that did not receive a “reject” submission must be withdrawn.
Important Dates
- Paper Submission due:
- July 23, 2020 (11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12)) Firm deadline
- Notification to authors:
- August 26, 2020
- Camera ready due:
- September
613, 2020
Program Chairs
- Wouter Lueks
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Paul Syverson
- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Program Committee
- Ruba Abu-Salma
- Inria, France
- Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen
- Utah State University, USA
- Sebastian Angel
- University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Ahmad Bashir
- ICSI Berkeley, USA
- Eleanor Birrell
- Pomona College, USA
- Eric Chan-Tin
- Loyola University, USA
- Camille Cobb
- Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- George Danezis
- University College London, UK / Facebook Calibra
- Anupam Das
- North Caroline State University, USA
- Emiliano De Cristofaro
- University College London, UK
- Josep Domingo-Ferrer
- Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
- Joan Feigenbaum
- Yale, USA
- Ellis Fenske
- U.S. Naval Academy, USA
- Simone Fischer-Hübner
- Karlstad University, Germany
- Sébastien Gambs
- Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Chaya Ganesh
- IISc Bangalore, India
- Simson Garfinkel
- U.S. Census Bureau, USA
- Adrià Gascón
- Google Research, USA
- Wajih Ul Hassan
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Ryan Henry
- University of Calgary, Canada
- Nicholas Hopper
- University of Minnesota, USA
- Aaron Johnson
- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA
- Marc Juarez
- USC Viterbi, USA
- Aniket Kate
- Purdue University, USA
- Stefan Katzenbeisser
- TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Katharina Kohls
- Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, Germany
- Chelsea H. Komlo
- University of Waterloo, Canada
- Pierre Laperdrix
- CNRS, France
- Peeter Laud
- Cybernetica AS, Estonia
- Adam J. Lee
- University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Ada Lerner
- Wellesley College, USA
- Yifang Li
- Clemson University, USA
- Akshaya Mani
- University of Waterloo, Canada
- Piotr Mardziel
- Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Travis Mayberry
- U.S. Naval Academy, USA
- Pedro Moreno-Sanchez
- TU Vienna, Austria
- Shirin Nilizadeh
- University of Texas at Arlington, USA
- Rishab Nithyanand
- University of Iowa, USA
- Melek Önen
- EURECOM, France
- Rebekah Overdorf
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Simon Oya
- University of Waterloo, Canada
- Andriy Panchenko
- Brandenburg Technical University, Germany
- Indrakshi Ray
- Colorado State University, USA
- Abbas Razaghpanah
- UC Berkeley, USA
- Joel Reardon
- University of Calgary, Canada
- Kui Ren
- University at Buffalo, USA
- Alfredo Rial
- University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Vera Rimmer
- KU Leuven, Belgium
- Reihaneh Safavi-Naini
- University of Calgary, Canada
- Thomas Schneider
- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
- Phillipp Schoppmann
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- Wendy Seltzer
- Berkman Klein Center, USA
- Zubair Shafiq
- University of Iowa, USA
- Fatemeh Shirazi
- Web3 Foundation, Switzerland
- Qiang Tang
- New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
- Ryan Wails
- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA
- Susanne Wetzel
- Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
- Tara Whalen
- Google, USA
Steering committee
- Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati
- Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Sushil Jajodia
- George Mason University, USA
- Pierangela Samarati (Chair)
- Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Paul Syverson
- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA