[Soups-announce] CFP: 1st Workshop on Surveillance and Usable Privacy (SUP), co-located with SOUPS 2026

[Yixin Zou]

Dear SOUPS community, 

On behalf of my co-organizers, we would like to invite you to submit to the 1st Workshop on Surveillance and Usable Privacy (SUP) 2026, co-located with SOUPS 2026 in Hanover, Germany. More details below.

Website: https://sup2026.codeberg.page/

Surveillance studies and usable privacy researchers often grapple with the same research topics but approach them with different framings, methods, and theoretical foundations. Usable privacy is largely focused on empirical assessments of individual privacy behaviors, perceptions, risks, and harms. While providing empirical results and (sometimes) actionable recommendations, this research approach may fail to identify the cumulative harms of minor individual privacy infringements. Usable privacy may also propose remedies that (1) companies have little incentive/impetus to implement or (2) do not materially change conditions for online users (e.g., more disclosures or privacy controls). Conversely, surveillance studies takes a holistic look at _power_ and focuses on identifying the actors (e.g., the surveillance _agent_ and _subject_) within a given context. Moreover, surveillance studies considers collective harms (e.g., chilling effects) and the goals and incentives (e.g., social control) of surveilling agents, which are challenging to surface through a focus on individual privacy. That said, the larger power dynamics identified by surveillance studies work may seem intractable and challenging to craft into concrete recommendations. This inaugural workshop on Surveillance and Usable Privacy (SUP) will help researchers from both disciplines will come together for knowledge-sharing and learning novel approaches to their work.

We are soliciting two types of submissions:

position papers (one page) and
extended abstracts of in-progress work (up to two pages).

Submission deadline: May 28, 2026 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
Acceptance notification: June 11, 2026 23:59 AoE
Final paper deadline: June 25, 2026 23:59 AoE
Workshop: Monday, August 24, 2026, 09:00-12:00 CEST (UTC +2)

Submission portal: https://sup26.usenix.hotcrp.com/.

If you have questions or want feedback on your potential submission, please reach out to the organizers using this contact form: https://nce.mpi-sp.org/index.php/apps/forms/s/Wz5MCznrWKX23td4N8YbHS3m.

Cheers,
Kentrell Owens, Yixin Zou, and Yael Eiger
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/pipermail/soups-announce/attachments/20260506/ca7556a2/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 1376 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/pipermail/soups-announce/attachments/20260506/ca7556a2/attachment.p7s>