Call for Papers

This year PoPETs is running an experiment on consistency in the review process. Please read about it!

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. The 19th PETS event will be organized by KTH and held in Stockholm, Sweden 2019 (July 16–20, 2019). 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. PoPETs is published by Sciendo, part of De Gruyter, which has over 260 years of publishing history. PoPETs does not have article processing charges (APCs) or article submission charges.

Submitted papers to PETS/PoPETs should present novel practical and/or theoretical research into the design, analysis, experimentation, or fielding of privacy-enhancing technologies.

Authors can submit papers to PoPETs four times a year, every three months, and are notified of the decisions about two months after submission. In addition to accept and reject decisions, papers may receive resubmit with major revisions decisions, in which case authors are invited to revise and resubmit their article to one of the following two issues. We endeavor to assign the same reviewers to revised versions. Papers accepted for an issue in the PoPETS 2019 volume must be presented at the symposium PETS 2019.

Submit papers for PoPETs 2019, Issue 4 at https://submit.petsymposium.org/2019.4/. Please see the submission guidelines and our FAQ for more information about the process.

Important Dates for PETS 2019

All deadlines are 23:59:59 American Samoa time (UTC-11)

Issue 1
Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2018 (firm)
Rebuttal period: July 9 – 11, 2018
Author notification: August 1, 2018
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted by the shepherd): September 15, 2018

Issue 2
Paper submission deadline: August 31, 2018 (firm)
Rebuttal period: October 8 – 10, 2018
Author notification: October 31, 2018
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted by the shepherd): December 15, 2018

Issue 3
Paper submission deadline: November 30, 2018 (firm)
Rebuttal period: January 7 – 10, 2019
Author notification: February 1, 2019
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted by the shepherd): March 15, 2019

Issue 4
Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2019 (firm)
Rebuttal period: April 8 – 10, 2019
Author notification: May 1, 2019
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted by the shepherd): June 15, 2019

Authors invited to resubmit with major revisions can submit the revised (full) paper two weeks after the stated deadline. Such papers must, however, be registered with an abstract by the usual deadline. All other papers than these major revision resubmissions must be submitted by the stated deadline, including papers submitted to and rejected from previous issues. To benefit from the two-week deadline extension, major revisions must be submitted to one of the two issues following the decision. Major revisions submitted to later issues are treated as new submissions, due by the regular deadline and possibly assigned to new reviewers.

Suggested topics include but are not restricted to:

Behavioural targeting

Blockchain technologies applied to privacy

Building and deploying privacy-enhancing systems

Crowdsourcing for privacy

Cryptographic tools for privacy

Data protection technologies

Differential privacy

Economics and game-theoretical approaches to privacy

Empirical studies of privacy in real-world systems

Forensics and privacy

Human factors, usability and user-centered design for PETs

Information leakage, data correlation and generic attacks to privacy

Interdisciplinary research connecting privacy to economics, law, ethnography, psychology, medicine, biotechnology, human rights

Location and mobility privacy

Machine learning and privacy

Measuring and quantifying privacy

Mobile devices and privacy

Obfuscation-based privacy

Policy languages and tools for privacy

Privacy in cloud and big-data applications

Privacy in social networks

Privacy-enhanced access control, authentication, and identity management

Profiling and data mining

Reliability, robustness, and abuse prevention in privacy systems

Surveillance

Systems for anonymous communications and censorship resistance

Traffic analysis

Transparency enhancing tools

Web privacy

We also solicit Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) papers on any of this topics. To be suitable for publication, SoK articles must provide an added value beyond a literature review, such as novel insights, identification of research gaps, or challenges to commonly held assumptions.

General Chairs (gc19@petsymposium.org)

Panos Papadimitratos, KTH

Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University

Program Chairs/Co-Editors-in-Chief (pets19-chairs@petsymposium.org)

Carmela Troncoso, EPFL

Kostas Chatzikokolakis, CNRS

Program Committee/Editorial Board:

Ruba Abu-Salma, University College London (UCL)

Gunes Acar, Princeton University

Sadia Afroz, ICSI / Berkeley

William Aiello, University of British Columbia

Mashael Al-Sabah, Qatar Computing Research Institute

Mario Alvim, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Abdelrahaman Aly, imec-COSIC, KU Leuven

Sebastian Angel, University of Pennsylvania

Erman Ayday, Case Western Reserve University

Foteini Baldimtsi, George Mason University

Shehar Bano, University College London

Kevin Bauer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University

Nataliia Bielova, INRIA

Igor Bilogrevic, Google

Cecylia Bocovich, University of Waterloo

Nikita Borisov, UIUC

Bogdan Carbunar, Florida International University

Melissa Chase, Microsoft Research

Kostas Chatzikokolakis, CNRS

Chris Clifton, Purdue University

Scott Coull, FireEye

Jed Crandall, University of New Mexico

Anupam Das, North Carolina State University

Rinku Dewri, University of Denver

Claudia Diaz, KU Leuven

Serge Egelman, ICSI / Berkeley

Tariq Elahi, University of Edinburgh

Ittay Eyal, Technion

Julien Freudiger, Apple

SÈbastien Gambs, UniversitÈ du QuÈbec ‡ MontrÈal (UQAM)

Paolo Gasti, New York Institute of Technology

Yossi Gilad, MIT

Rachel Greenstadt, Drexel University

Jens Grossklags, Technical University of Munich

Jamie Hayes, UCL

Amir Herzberg, University of Connecticut and Bar Ilan University

Nick Hopper, University of Minnesota

Amir Houmansadr, University of Massachusetts Amherst

KÈvin Huguenin, UniversitÈ de Lausanne

Rob Jansen, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Mobin Javed, LUMS/ICSI

Aaron Johnson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Philipp Jovanovic, EPFL

Marc Juarez, KU Leuven

Peter Kairouz, Google AI

Apu Kapadia, Indiana University Bloomington

Aniket Kate, Purdue University

Stefan Katzenbeisser, TU Darmstadt

Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo

Boris Koepf, Microsoft Research

Markulf Kohlweiss, Edimbourgh University

Yoshi Kohno, University of Washington

Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, IIIT Delhi

Alptekin K¸pÁ¸, KoÁ University

Susan Landau, Tufts University

Douglas Leith, Trinity College Dublin

Janne Lindqvist, Rutgers university

Chang Liu, Berkeley

Patrick Loiseau, Inria

Wouter Lueks, EPFL

Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Duke University

Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford

Nick Mathewson, Tor Project

Travis Mayberry, U.S. Naval Academy

Michelle Mazurek, University of Maryland

Susan McGregor, Tow Center for Digital Journalism & Columbia Journalism School

Sarah Meiklejohn, University College London

Alan Mislove, Northeastern University

Prateek Mittal, Princeton University

Esfandiar Mohammadi, ETH Zurich

Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, TU Wien

Takao Murakami, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Steven Murdoch, University College London

Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University

Melek ÷nen, EURECOM

Cristina Onete, Universite de Limoges / XLIM

Claudio Orlandi, Aarhus University

Rebekah Overdorf, KU Leuven

Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA

Panagiotis (Panos) Papadimitratos, KTH

Charalampos Papamanthou, University of Maryland

Nicolas Papernot, Google Brain

Paul Pearce, UC Berkeley

Fabian Prasser, TU Munich

Bart Preneel, KU Leuven

Ananth Raghunathan, Google Brain

Joel Reardon, University of Calgary

External Reviewer, University of Calgary

Alfredo Rial, University of Luxembourg

Franziska Roesner, University of Washington

Thomas Roessler, Google

Phillip Rogaway, UC Davis

Stefanie Roos, TU Delft

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische Universit‰t Darmstadt

Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Peter Schwabe, Radboud University

Zubair Shafiq, University of Iowa

Reza Shokri, National University of Singapore

Claudio Soriente, NEC

Anna Squicciarini, Penn State University

Theresa Stadler, Privitar

Nick Sullivan, Cloudflare

Paul Syverson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Nina Taft, Google

Hassan Takabi, University of North Texas

Shruti Tople, Microsoft Research

Carmela Troncoso, EPFL

Doug Tygar, UC Berkeley

Blase Ur, University of Chicago

Narseo Vallina, IMDEA Networks Institute

Joris Van Hoboken, University of Amsterdam & Vrije Universiteit Brussels

Eugene Vasserman, Kansas State University

Tara Whalen, Google

Philipp Winter, UC San Diego / CAIDA

Matthew Wright, RIT

Minhui Xue, Macquarie University and Data61-CSIRO

Thomas Zacharias, University of Edinburgh

Daniel Zappala, Brigham Young University

Ben Zhao, University of Chicago

HotPETs Chairs (hotpets19@petsymposium.org)

Wouter Lueks, EPFL

Susan McGregor, Columbia

PET Award Chairs (award-chairs19@petsymposium.org)

George Danezis, UCL

Matthew Wright, RIT

Sponsorship Chairs (sponsorship@petsymposium.org)

Rachel Greenstadt, Drexel University

Steven Murdoch, University College London

Publicity Chairs (publicity19@petsymposium.org)

Kat Hanna, The Tor Project

Rebekah Overdorf, EPFL

Publications Chairs (publication19@petsymposium.org)

Vasilios Mavroudis, University College London

Philipp Winter, UC San Diego / CAIDA

Video Chair (video19@petsymposium.org)

Aaron Johnson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Ryan Henry, Indiana University Bloomington

Web Chairs

Ian Goldberg, University of Waterloo

Kat Hanna, The Tor Project

Stipend Chairs (pets2019-stipend@petsymposium.org)

Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project

Damon McCoy, New York University

Andrei Serjantov

Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
You are invited to submit nominations for the 2019 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies. The Caspar Bowden PET award is presented annually to researchers who have made an outstanding contribution to the theory, design, implementation, or deployment of privacy enhancing technologies. It is awarded at PETS and carries a cash prize as well as a physical award monument.

Any paper by any author written in the area of privacy enhancing technologies is eligible for nomination. However, the paper must have appeared in a refereed journal, conference, or workshop with proceedings published in the period from April 1, 2017 until March 30, 2019.

Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award
The Andreas Pfitzmann PETS 2019 Best Student Paper Award will be selected at PETS 2019. Papers written solely or primarily by a student who is presenting the work at PETS 2019 are eligible for the award.

HotPETs
As with the last several years, part of the symposium will be devoted to HotPETs — the "hottest," most exciting research ideas still in a formative state. Further information will be published on the PETS 2019 website soon.