WPES 2010 - Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2010)

The need for privacy-aware policies, regulations, and techniques has been widely recognized. This workshop discusses the problems of privacy in the global interconnected societies and possible solutions. The 2010 Workshop, held in conjunction with the ACM CCS conference, is the ninth in a yearly forum for papers on all the different aspects of privacy in today's electronic society.

The workshop seeks submissions from academia and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of electronic privacy, as well as experimental studies of fielded systems. We encourage submissions from other communities such as law and business that present these communities' perspectives on technological issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

anonymity, pseudonymity, and unlinkability

privacy in mobile computing

data management technology and privacy

privacy in outsourced computing

economics of privacy

privacy in social networks

electronic communication privacy

privacy in the digital business

information dissemination control

privacy in the electronic records

personally identifiable information

privacy policies

privacy and anonymity in the Web

privacy policy enforcement

privacy and confidentiality management

privacy threats

privacy and data mining

privacy-aware access control

privacy and human rights

public records and personal privacy

privacy and virtual identity

relationships between privacy and security

privacy enhancing technologies

user profiling

privacy in health care

wireless privacy