PETS 2025
The 25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
July 14–19, 2025
Location: Washington, DC and Online
About
The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together privacy experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. PETS/PoPETs is the premier venue for novel applied and/or theoretical research into the design, analysis, experimentation, or fielding of privacy-enhancing technologies.
Submitted papers undergo a journal-style reviewing process and accepted papers are published in the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs). PoPETs, a scholarly, open access journal for timely research papers on privacy, has been established as a way to improve reviewing and publication quality while retaining the highly successful PETS community event. As of April, 2022, PoPETs is self-published. PoPETs does not have article processing charges (APCs) or article submission charges.
Authors can submit papers to PoPETs four times a year, every three months on a predictable schedule. Authors are notified of the decisions two months after submission. The four submission deadlines for the 2026 volume of PoPETs are in May 2025, Aug 2025, Nov 2025, and Feb 2026.
The call for papers provides more information for authors and a list of example topics in the scope of PoPETs.
Important Dates
PoPETs 2025
All deadlines are 23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12)
Issue 4
Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2025 (firm)
Rebuttal period: April 15–18, 2025
Author notification: May 1, 2025
Revision deadline: June 1, 2025
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and accepted revisions: June 15, 2025
PoPETs 2026
All deadlines are 23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12)
Issue 1
Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2025 (firm)
Rebuttal period: July 11–17, 2025
Author notification: August 1, 2025
Revision deadline: September 1, 2025
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and accepted revisions: September 15, 2025
Issue 2
Paper submission deadline: August 31, 2025 (firm)
Rebuttal period: October 10–16, 2025
Author notification: November 1, 2025
Revision deadline: December 1, 2025
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and accepted revisions: December 15, 2025
Issue 3
Paper submission deadline: November 30, 2025 (firm)
Rebuttal period: January 12–19, 2026
Author notification: February 1, 2026
Revision deadline: March 1, 2026
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and accepted revisions: March 15, 2026
Issue 4
Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2026 (firm)
Rebuttal period: April 10–16, 2026
Author notification: May 1, 2026
Revision deadline: June 1, 2026
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and accepted revisions: June 15, 2026
Past PETS
Links to websites for previous PETS.
Advisory board
PoPETs/PETS Advisory Board members.
Announcements
Join the PET mailing list for announcements, CFPs, and other treats.
You can also follow us @pet-symposium on Bluesky and infosec.exchange/@PET_Symposium on Mastodon, or watch videos of the talks on our Youtube channel.
Acceptance rates
Acceptance rates for issues and volumes going back to 2016.
FAQ
Questions and answers about PoPETs and PETS.
