[Soups-announce] PETS 2015: Early Registration ends June 11th!

[Kapadia, Apu Chandrasen]

Please note: 3 days to go for early registration.


(Apologies if you received duplicate copies of this call for participation)

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The 15th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2015)
June 30-July 2, 2015
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
http://petsymposium.org/

Registration for PETS 2015 is now *OPEN* at http://petsymposium.org/2015/registration.php
*** Early registration (and hotel block) deadline: June 11, 2015 ***

As the amount and the sensitivity of information disseminated in the online world grow, so do related privacy concerns. Extensive surveillance and massive tracking of users on the Web are only some of today’s threats to individual privacy. In the big data era, information increasingly equals power and money, and organizations are thus motivated to collect and retain large quantities of personal and, increasingly, contextual information.

The Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) aims to advance the state of the art and foster a worldwide community of researchers and practitioners to discuss innovation and new perspectives. It brings together privacy experts from around the world to discuss recent advances and new perspectives. PETS announces novel research efforts toward designing and building systems for privacy and anonymity protection as well as analyzing challenges and threats.

The full program for the event can be found at http://petsymposium.org/2015/program.php:
it includes 23 accepted papers, panels and a keynote talk (Jonathan Katz, Professor, University of Maryland - "Secure computation: Where do we go from here?").

Additionally, PETS will feature a one-day workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs 2015). The ambition of the workshop is to foster new ideas, spirited debates, as well as controversial perspectives on privacy (and lack thereof). The program is available at http://petsymposium.org/2015/hotpets.php and includes 9 accepted papers and a keynote talk (TBA).

General Chair (gc15 at petsymposium.org):
Rachel Greenstadt, Drexel University

Program Chairs/Co-Editors-in-Chief (pets15-chairs at petsymposium.org):
Apu Kapadia, Indiana University Bloomington
Steven Murdoch, University College London

Publications Chair (publication15 at petsymposium.org):
Qatrunnada Ismail

Publicity Chair (publicity15 at petsymposium.org):
Sadia Afroz, UC Berkeley

HotPETs Chairs (hotpets15 at petsymposium.org):
Kelly Caine, Clemson University
Michael Brennan, SecondMuse
Aaron Johnson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

PETS will also feature a ‘Pre-PETS’ workshop on June 29th:
Workshop on Surveillance and Technology (SAT) (https://satsymposium.org/)
You can register for SAT on the PETS registration page.
-- 
Apu Kapadia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University Bloomington
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kapadia/, @apukapadia

IU Privacy Lab:
http://private.soic.indiana.edu/, @IUPrivLab