6th Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs 2013)
Held in conjunction with the 13th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
July 12, 2013
Program (Friday July 12)
8:00–12 Registration (Whittenberger Auditorium)8:00–8:30 Breakfast (Georgian Room, First Floor)
9:15 Opening Remarks (Whittenberger Auditorium)
9:30 Session 1: Privacy in Action (Chair: Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis)
- Implementation of Privacy-Friendly Aggregation for the Smart Grid
Benessa Defend and Klaus Kursawe - Fit and Vulnerable: Attacks and Defenses for a Health Monitoring Device
Mahmudur Rahman, Bogdan Carbunar, and Madhusudan Banik - Privacy Technologies: An Annotated Syllabus
Arvind Narayanan
11:15 Invited Speaker (Chair: Paul Syverson)
- DIY Privacy with Obfuscation (Abstract)
Helen Nissenbaum
2:00 Session 2: Anonymous Communication (Chair: Aaron Johnson)
- AnoA: A Framework For Analyzing Anonymous Communication Protocols
Michael Backes, Aniket Kate, Praveen Manoharan, Sebastian Meiser, and Esfandiar Mohammadi - Towards Measuring Resilience in Anonymous Communication Networks
Fatemeh Shirazi, Claudia Diaz, Ciaran Mullan, Joss Wright, and Johannes Buchmann
3:10 Session 3: Data Privacy (Chair: Claudia Diaz)
- The High-School Profiling Attack: How Online Privacy Laws Can Actually Increase Minors' Risk
Ratan Dey, Yuan Ding, and Keith Ross - De-anonymizing D4D Datasets
Kumar Sharad and George Danezis
4:20 Session 4: Censorship Resistance (Chair: Eugene Vasserman)
- Identity-Based Steganography and Its Applications to Censorship Resistance
Tim Ruffing, Jonas Schneider, and Aniket Kate - SWEET: Serving the Web by Exploiting Email Tunnels
Wenxuan Zhou, Amir Houmansadr, Matthew Caesar, and Nikita Borisov
Invited Speaker
Helen Nissenbaum: DIY Privacy with Obfuscation
Abstract: In limited domains, data obfuscation promises relief against powerful machinations of surveillance, aggregation, mining, and profiling. Whether it can withstand countervailing data analytics remains an open question; equally important are charges that it is unethical, illegitimate, or, at best, ungenerous. My talk explores the potential of obfuscation as a "weapon-of-the-weak" as it reveals technical, moral, and political vulnerabilities. It locates sources of these vulnerabilities, in particular, exploring the extent of our obligation to provide information about ourselves to others, sometimes in the name of the common good.
Bio: Helen Nissenbaum is Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, and Computer Science, and Director of the Information Law Institute at New York University. Her work, focusing on social, ethical, and political implications of information technology and digital media, has appeared in journals of philosophy, politics, law, media studies, information studies, and computer science. She has written and edited four books, including Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life, which was published in 2010 by Stanford University Press. The National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Ford Foundation, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator, Intel and Microsoft have supported her work on privacy, trust online, and security, as well as several studies of values embodied in computer system design, including search engines, digital games, facial recognition technology, and health information systems. Nissenbaum holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and a B.A. (Hons) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Before joining the faculty at NYU, she served as Associate Director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Call for Papers
Important Dates:
- HotPETs submission deadline: April 26, 2013, 23:59 GMT (Deadline extended)
- HotPETs notification: May 17, 2013
- HotPETs camera-ready deadline: May 27, 2013
Topics:
The ambition of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs) is to foster new ideas, spirited debates, as well as controversial perspectives on privacy (and lack thereof).
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Interdisciplinary privacy: usability, economics, legal issues, cultural perspectives
- User studies, real world impact of PETs
- Human computer interaction, PETs usability
- Hands-on experimentation with PETs
- Real-life challenges of PETs deployment
- Economics of privacy
- Anonymous communications and publishing systems, Censorship resistance
- Cryptographic protocols with application to privacy
- Privacy in databases
- Privacy in social networks
- Location privacy
- Privacy and identity management
- Privacy-enhanced access control and authentication
The HotPETs Workshop has no official proceedings. Selected papers will not be included in PETS proceedings, not to preclude later publication of a full paper in other venues. If needed, authors may request workshop co-chairs to contact organizers of other venues to clarify the nature of HotPETs publications.
Submission guidelines:
- Papers must conform to the Springer LNCS style (in which the text area per page is a little smaller than 5" x 7 3/4"). Follow the "Information for Authors" link at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
- There is no page limit for the papers to be submitted to the HotPETs workshop. However, short papers (less than 6 pages) are highly appreciated.
- Papers need to be submitted through the HotPETs Submission Website
- Submitted papers must not be anonymized.
HotPETs chairs:
- Prateek Mittal (UC Berkeley)
- Reza Shokri (EPFL)
HotPETs Program Committee:
- Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis (INRIA and CNRS)
- Jens Grossklags (Pennsylvania State University)
- Seda Gurses (K.U. Leuven)
- Prateek Mittal (UC Berkeley)
- Reza Shokri (EPFL)
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