The 2024 winner is:
- Canonne, Clement, Gautam Kamath, and Thomas Steinke. 2022. "The Discrete Gaussian for Differential Privacy". Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality 12 (1). https://doi.org/10.29012/jpc.784. [PDF]
The 2024 runners-up are:
- Carlotta Tagliaro, Florian Hahn, Riccardo Sepe, Alessio Aceti, Martina Lindorfer. "I Still Know What You Watched Last Sunday: Privacy of the HbbTV Protocol in the European Smart TV Landscape". Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2023. [PDF]
- Iqbal, Umar and Bahrami, Pouneh Nikkhah and Trimananda, Rahmadi and Cui, Hao and Gamero-Garrido, Alexander and Dubois, Daniel J. and Choffnes, David and Markopoulou, Athina and Roesner, Franziska and Shafiq, Zubair. "Tracking, Profiling, and Ad Targeting in the Alexa Echo Smart Speaker Ecosystem". IMC '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference. [PDF]
2024 PET Award Chairs: Alina Oprea, Florian Tramèr
2024 PET Award Committee: Kamalika Chaudhuri, Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Lorrie Cranor, Rachel Cummings, Kassem Fawaz, Sébastien Gambs, Peter Kairouz, Gautam Kamath, Aniket Kate, Florian Kerschbaum, Aleksandra Korolova, Wouter Lueks, Olya Ohrimenko, Prateek Saxena, Verena Zimmermann
The 2023 winner is:
- John M. Abowd, Robert Ashmead, Ryan Cumings-Menon, Simson Garfinkel, Micah Heineck, Christine Heiss, Robert Johns, Daniel Kifer, Philip Leclerc, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Brett Moran, William Sexton, Matthew Spence, Pavel Zhuravlev. "The 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System TopDown Algorithm". Harvard Data Science Review Special Issue 2: Differential Privacy for the 2020 U.S. Census. [HTML]
The 2023 runner-up is:
- Nicholas Carlini, Florian Tramèr, Eric Wallace, Matthew Jagielski, Ariel Herbert-Voss, Katherine Lee, Adam Roberts, Tom Brown, Dawn Song, Úlfar Erlingsson, Alina Oprea, Colin Raffel. "Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models". USENIX Security Symposium 2021 [PDF]
2023 PET Award Chairs: Emiliano De Cristofaro, Dali Kaafar
2023 PET Award Committee: Mario Alvim, Rainer Böhme, Srdjan Capkun, Adria Gascon, Oana Goga, Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Apu Kapadia, Florian Kerschbaum, Elissa Redmiles, Kazue Sako, Florian Schaub, Thorsten Strufe, Kunal Talwar, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Matt Wright, Yang Zhang
Past Winners
The 2022 Winner is:
- Cuong Tran, Ferdinando Fioretto, Pascal Van Hentenryck, and Zhiyan Yao. "Decision Making with Differential Privacy under the Fairness Lens". Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-21). [PDF]
The 2022 runner-up is:
- Henry Birge-Lee, Liang Wang, Daniel McCarney, Roland Shoemaker, Jennifer Rexford, Prateek Mittal. "Experiences Deploying Multi-Vantage-Point Domain Validation at Let's Encrypt". USENIX Security 21. [PDF]
2022 PET Award Chairs: Panos Papadimitratos, Catuscia Palamidessi
2022 PET Award Committee: Mario Alvim, Ross Anderson, Rainer Böhme, Serge Egelman, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Marco Gaboardi, Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Nick Hopper, Dali Kaafar, Annabelle McIver, Kazue Sako, Reza Shokri, Thorsten Strufe, Kunal Talwar
The 2021 Winner is:
- Vitaly Feldman. "Does Learning Require Memorization? A Short Tale about a Long Tail". ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing 2020. [PDF]
The 2021 runners-up are:
- H. Moghaddam, G. Acar, B. Burgess, A. Mathur, D. Huang, N. Feamster, E. Felten, P. Mittal, A. Narayanan. "Watching You Watch: The Tracking Ecosystem of Over-the-Top TV Streaming Devices". ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2019. [PDF]
- Kasra Edalatnejad, Wouter Lueks, Julien Pierre Martin, Soline Ledésert, Anne L'Hôte, Bruno Thomas, Laurent Girod, and Carmela Troncoso. "DatashareNetwork: A Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Search Engine for Investigative Journalists". USENIX Security Symposium 2020. [PDF]
2021 PET Award Chairs: Panos Papadimitratos, Simone Fischer-Hübner
2021 PET Award Committee: Ross Anderson, Rainer Böhme, Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Nick Hopper, Dali Kaafar, Apu Kapadia, Eleni Kosta, Kazue Sako, Pierangela Samarati, Reza Shokri, Jessica Staddon, Thorsten Strufe, Paul Syverson, Kunal Talwar
The 2020 Winner is:
- Irwin Reyes, Primal Wijesekera, Joel Reardon, Amit Elazari Bar On, Abbas Razaghpanah, NarseoVallina-Rodriguez, and Serge Egelman. "“Won’t Somebody Think of the Children?” Examining COPPA Compliance at Scale". Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2018.3 [PDF]
The 2020 runner-up is:
- Henry Birge-Lee, Yixin Sun, Anne Edmundson, Jennifer Rexford, and Prateek Mittal. "Bamboozling Certificate Authorities with BGP". USENIX Security Symposium 2018. [PDF]
2020 PET Award Chairs: Simone Fischer-Hübner, Ross Anderson
2020 PET Award Committee: Erman Ayday, Nataliia Bielova, Sonja Buchegger, Ian Goldberg, Rachel Greenstadt, Marit Hansen, Dali Kaafar, Carmela Troncoso, Matthew Wright
The 2019 Winners are:
- Hamza Harkous, Kassem Fawaz, Rémi Lebret, Florian Schaub, Kang G. Shin, and Karl Aberer. "Polisis: Automated Analysis and Presentation of Privacy Policies Using Deep Learning". USENIX Security Symposium 2018 [PDF]
- Kobbi Nissim, Aaron Bembenek, Alexandra Wood, Mark Bun, Marco Gaboardi, Urs Gasser, David R. O’Brien, Thomas Steinke, and Salil Vadhan. "Bridging the Gap between Computer Science and Legal Approaches to Privacy". Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 2016. [PDF]
The 2019 runners-up are:
- Giridhari Venkatadri, Athanasios Andreou, Yabing Liu, Alan Mislove, Krishna P. Gummadi, Patrick Loiseau, and Oana Goga. "Privacy Risks with Facebook's PII-based Targeting: Auditing a Data Broker's Advertising Interface". IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2018. [PDF]
- Zeyu Ding, Yuxin Wang, Guanhong Wang, Danfeng Zhang and Daniel Kifer. "Detecting Violations of Differential Privacy". Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'18) [PDF]
2019 PET Award Chairs: George Danezis, Matthew Wright
2019 PET Award Committee: Erman Ayday, Michael Backes, Sonja Buchegger, Sherman S. M. Chow, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Rachel Greenstadt, Dali Kaafar, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Reza Shokri
The 2018 Winners are:
- Reza Shokri, Marco Stronati, Congzheng Song, and Vitaly Shmatikov. "Membership Inference Attacks against Machine Learning Models". IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2017. [PDF]
- Raphael R. Toledo, George Danezis, and Ian Goldberg. "Lower-Cost epsilon-Private Information Retrieval". Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Volume 2016, Issue 4, October 2016. [PDF]
The 2018 runners-up are:
- Rebekah Overdorf, Marc Juarez, Gunes Acar, Rachel Greenstadt, and Claudia Diaz. "How Unique is Your .onion?: An Analysis of the Fingerprintability of Tor Onion Services". Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'17). [PDF]
- Nik Unger and Ian Goldberg. "Improved Strongly Deniable Authenticated Key Exchanges for Secure Messaging". Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Volume 2018, Issue 1, January 2018. [PDF]
2018 PET Award Chairs: Matthew Wright, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
2018 PET Award Committee: Erman Ayday, Marina Blanton, Srdjan Capkun, Christopher W. Clifton, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Ian Goldberg, Raquel Hill, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Yongdae Kim, Aleksandra Korolova, Bart Preneel, Jessica Staddon, Paul Syverson
The 2017 Winner is:
- Marcela S. Melara, Aaron Blankstein, Joseph Bonneau, Edward W. Felten, Michael J. Freedman. "CONIKS: Bringing Key Transparency to End Users". USENIX Security Symposium 2015. [PDF]
The 2017 runner-up is:
- Dan Bogdanov, Liina Kamm, Baldur Kubo, Reimo Rebane, Ville Sokk, and Riivo Talviste. "Students and Taxes: a Privacy-Preserving Study Using Secure Computation". Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Volume 2016, Issue 3. [PDF]
2017 PET Award Chairs: Carmela Troncoso, Bryan Ford
2017 PET Award Committee: Erman Ayday, Solon Barocas, Aylin Caliskan, Srdjan Capkun, Jed Crandall, Anupam Datta, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Seda Gürses, Ryan Henry, Florian Kerschbaum, Bradley A. Malin, Aleecia McDonald, Sören Preibusch, Bart Preneel, Vitaly Shmatikov, Paul Syverson
The 2016 Winner is:
- Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Dan Boneh, and David Mazières. "Riposte: An Anonymous Messaging System Handling Millions of Users". IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2015. [PDF]
The 2016 runner-up is:
- Stefan Korff and Rainer Böhme. "Too Much Choice: End-User Privacy Decisions in the Context of Choice Proliferation". Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security 2014. [PDF]
2016 PET Award Chairs: Carmela Troncoso, Nick Hopper
2016 PET Award Committee: Florian Kerschbaum, Dan Kifer, Bradley A. Malin, Sören Preibusch, Phillip Rogaway, Vitaly Shmatikov, Reza Shokri, Melanie Volkamer, Joss Wright
The 2015 Winner is:
- Mihir Bellare, Kenny Paterson, and Phillip Rogaway. "Security of Symmetric Encryption against Mass Surveillance". CRYPTO 2014. [PDF]
The 2015 runners-up were:
- Úlfar Erlingsson, Vasyl Pihur, and Aleksandra Korolova. "RAPPOR: Randomized Aggregatable Privacy-Preserving Ordinal Response". 2014 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, November 2014. [PDF]
- Gunes Acar, Marc Juarez, Nick Nikiforakis, Claudia Diaz, Seda Gürses, Frank Piessens, and Bart Preneel. "FPDetective: Dusting the Web for Fingerprinters". 2013 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, November 2013. [PDF]
2016 PET Award Chairs: Nick Hopper, Rachel Greenstadt
2016 PET Award Committee: Sadia Afroz, Jean Camp, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Claudia Diaz, Ryan Henry, Markulf Kohlweiss, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Vitaly Shmatikov, Reza Shokri, Tara Whalen, Joss Wright
The 2014 Winner is:
- Suman Jana, Arvind Narayanan, Vitaly Shmatikov. "A Scanner Darkly: Protecting User Privacy from Perceptual Applications". 34th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2013. [PDF]
The 2014 runners-up were:
- Kevin Dyer, Scott Coull, Thomas Ristenpart, Thomas Shrimpton. "Protocol Misidentification Made Easy with Format-Transforming Encryption". 2013 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, November 2013. [publisher's website]
- Ian Miers, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Aviel D. Rubin. "Zerocoin: Anonymous Distributed E-Cash from Bitcoin". 34th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2013. [PDF]
2014 PET Award Chairs: Ian Goldberg, Rachel Greenstadt
2014 PET Award Committee: Alessandro Acquisti, Vijay Atluri, Jed Crandall, Claudia Diaz, Nadia Heninger, Nick Hopper, Markulf Kohlweiss, Damon McCoy, Arvind Narayanan, Tara Whalen
The 2013 Winner is:
- Michael Brennan, Sadia Afroz, and Rachel Greenstadt, "Adversarial Stylometry: Circumventing Authorship Recognition to Preserve Privacy and Anonymity". ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC).Volume 15 Issue 3, November 2012, Article No. 12. [publisher's website]
The 2013 runners-up were:
- Alan M. Dunn, Michael Z. Lee, Suman Jana, Sangman Kim, Mark Silberstein, Yuanzhong Xu, Vitaly Shmatikov, and Emmett Witchel, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Machine: Protecting Privacy with Ephemeral Channels". 10th USENIX Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI), October 2012. [PDF]
- Rob Jansen and Nicholas Hopper, "Shadow: Running Tor in a Box for Accurate and Efficient Experimentation". 19th Annual ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2012. [PDF]
2013 PET Award Chairs: Nikita Borisov, Ian Goldberg
2013 PET Award Committee: Claudia Diaz, Serge Egelman, Rachel Greenstadt, Nick Hopper, Bradley Malin, Steven Murdoch, Shishir Nagaraja, Paul Syverson, Michael Waidner
The 2012 Winner is:
- Andrew M. White, Austin R. Matthews, Kevin Z. Snow and Fabian Monrose, "Phonotactic Reconstruction of Encrypted VoIP Conversations: Hookt on fon-iks." IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2011. [PDF]
The 2012 runners-up were:
- Reza Shokri, George Theodorakopoulos, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, and Jean-Pierre Hubaux. "Quantifying Location Privacy." IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2011. [PDF]
- Eric Wustrow, Scott Wolchok, Ian Goldberg, and J. Alex Halderman. "Telex: Anticensorship in the Network Infrastructure." USENIX Security Symposium, 2011. [PDF]
2012 PET Award Chairs: Claudia Diaz, Nikita Borisov
2012 PET Award Committee: Roger Dingledine, Ian Goldberg, Nick Hopper, Adam Lee, Bradley Malin, Aleecia McDonald, Steven Murdoch, Vitaly Shmatikov, Adam Smith, Michael Waidner, XiaoFeng Wang
The 2011 Winners are:
- R. Wang, Y. Li, X. Wang, H. Tang, X. Zhou. "Learning your identity and disease from research papers: information leaks in genome wide association study," ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2009, pp. 534-544. [PDF]
- A. Korolova. "Privacy Violations Using Microtargeted Ads: A Case Study," IEEE International Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining (PADM ’2010). [PDF]
The 2011 runners-up were:
- S. Chen, R. Wang, X. Wang, K. Zhang. "Side-Channel Leaks in Web Applications: a Reality Today, a Challenge Tomorrow," IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE Computer Society, May 2010. [website]
- P. Eckersley. "How Unique is Your Web Browser?" Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 10th International Symposium, PETS 2010. [PDF]
2011 PET Award Chair: Claudia Diaz
2011 PET Award Committee: Mikhail Atallah, Alastair Beresford, Jan Camenisch, Philippe Golle, Marit Hansen, Klaus Kursawe, Andrei Serjantov, Vitaly Shmatikov, Paul Syverson, Gene Tsudik, Matthew Wright
The 2010 Winner is:
- Craig Gentry. Fully Homomorphic Encryption using Ideal Lattices. ACM Symposium Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) 2009.
The 2010 runners-up were:
- N. Homer, S. Szelinger, M. Redman, D. Duggan, W. Tembe, J. Muehling, J.V. Pearson, DA Stephan, S.F. Nelson, and D.W. Craig. Resolving individuals contributing trace amounts of DNA to highly complex mixtures using high-density SNP genotyping microarrays. PlOS Genet, 2008.
- R. Chow, P. Golle, and J. Staddon. Detecting Privacy Leaks Using Corpus-based Association Rules. ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD) 2008.
- S. Spiekermann and L. Cranor. Engineering Privacy. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 35(1), 2009, pp. 67-82.
2010 PET Award Chair: Cynthia Dwork
The 2009 Winners are:
- Cynthia Dwork. An Ad Omnia Approach to Defining and Achieving Private Data Analysis. ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD (PinKDD 2007). [website]
- Frank McSherry and Kunal Talwar. Mechanism Design via Differential Privacy. IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2007). [website]
The 2009 runners-up were:
- Patrick Tsang, Man Ho Au, Apu Kapadia, and Sean Smith. Blacklistable anonymous credentials: blocking misbehaving users without TTPs. ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS 2007). [PDF]
- Patrick Tsang, Man Ho Au, Apu Kapadia, and Sean Smith. PEREA: Towards Practical TTP-Free Revocation in Anonymous Authentication. ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS 2008). [PDF]
2009 PET Award Chair: Vitaly Shmatikov
The 2008 Winner is:
- Arvind Narayanan and Vitaly Shmatikov. Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2008). [PDF]
The 2008 runners-up were:
- Steven J. Murdoch and Piotr Zielinski. Sampled Traffic Analysis by Internet-Exchange-Level Adversaries. Proceedings of the 2007 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop (PET 2007).
- Mira Belenkiy, Melissa Chase, C. Chris Erway, John Jannotti, Alptekin Küpçü, Anna Lysyanskaya, and Eric Rachlin. Making P2P Accountable without Losing Privacy. Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2007).
2008 PET Award Chair: Matt Wright
The 2007 Winner is:
- Stephen C. Bono, Matthew Green, Adam Stubblefield, Ari Juels, Aviel D. Rubin and Michael Szydlo. Security Analysis of a Cryptographically-Enabled RFID Device. Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Security Symposium. [PDF]
The 2007 runners-up were:
- Jiangtao Li, Ninghui Li and William H. Winsborough. Automated Trust Negotiation Using Cryptographic Credentials. Proceedings of the 12th ACM conference on Computer and communications security.
- Keith B. Frikken and Philippe Golle. Private Social Network Analysis: How to Assemble Pieces of a Graph. Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Privacy in electronic society.
The 2006 Winner is:
- Daniel J. Solove. A taxonomy of privacy. University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 154, No. 3, p. 477, January 2006. [website]
The other 2006 nominees were:
- Carolyn Brodie, Clare-Marie Karat, John Karat . The SPARCLE Policy Management Workbench Project.
- Steven J. Murdoch, George Danezis: Low-Cost Traffic Analysis of Tor. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2005: 183-195
- Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim, Adam Smith: Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity in Private Data Analysis. TCC 2006: 265-284
The 2005 Winner is:
- Alessandro Acquisti for "Privacy in Electronic Commerce and the Economics of Immediate Gratification," in Proceedings of the ACM Electronic Commerce Conference (EC 04). New York, NY: ACM Press, 21-29, 2004. [PDF]
The other 2005 nominees were:
- Nick Feamster and Roger Dingledine for "Location Diversity in Anonymity Networks" in WPES'04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society. [PS]
- Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, and Paul Syverson for "Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router", in Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2004. [PDF]
The 2004 Winners are:
- Michael Backes, Birgit Pfitzmann, and Matthias Schunter for "A Toolkit for Managing Enterprise Privacy Policies", in ESORICS 2003. [PDF]
- Matthias Bauer for "New Covert Channels in HTTP: Adding Unwitting Web Browsers to Anonymity Sets", in Proceedings of the Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society 2003. [website]
The other 2004 nominees were:
- Jan Camenisch and Anna Lysyanskaya, "A Signature scheme with efficient protocols", in Security in Communication Networks, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 2576, 2002. [website]
- Jan Camenisch and Els Van Herreweghen, "Design and Implementation of the Idemix Anonymous Credential System", in 9th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. [PDF]
- Marcin Gomukiewicz, Marek Klonowski and Mirosaw Kutyowski, "Rapid Mixing and Security of Chaums Visual Electronic Voting", in ESORICS 2003. [PDF]
- Latanya Sweeney, "k-Anonymity: a model for protecting privacy", in International Journal on Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems 10 (5), 2002, pp. 557-570. [PDF]
- by Matthew Wright, Brian Levine, Michael Reiter and Chenxi Wang, "Stopping timing attacks in low-latency mix-based systems". In Financial Crypto '04. [PDF]
The 2003 Winner is:
- Andrei Serjantov and George Danezis for "Towards an Information Theoretic Metric for Anonymity", from the 2002 Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. [PDF]
The other 2003 nominees were:
- John Douceur for "The Sybil Attack", presented at International Peer To Peer Systems Workshop 2002, March 2002. [PDF]
- Alessandro Acquisti, Roger Dingledine, and Paul Syverson for "On the Economics of Anonymity", presented at Financial Cryptography 2003. [PDF]
- Adil Alsaid and David Martin for "Detecting Web Bugs With Bugnosis: Privacy Advocacy Through Education", presented at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop 2002. [publisher's website]
