OPERANDI 2018: Open Day for Privacy, Transparency and Decentralization

July 23, 2018
2:00–6:30 PM
Co-located with PETS 2018
Aula 1, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

More space is available! Register here: https://operandi2018.eventbrite.com/

14:00 Opening

14:05 Lightning Talks

  1. Rate-Based Congestion Control for Tor
    Stefanie Roos, Ian Goldberg

  2. Metric-based local differential privacy for statistical applications
    Mario S. Alvim, Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis, Catuscia Palamidessi, Anna Pazii

  3. Advances in Secure Group Messaging
    Nik Unger and Ian Goldberg

  4. Introduction to the Katzenpost Mix Network System
    David Stainton, George Danezis, Claudia Diaz, Ania Piotrowska, Yawning Angel

  5. Anonymous Bitcoin
    Amir Taaki

  6. R3C3: Cryptographically secure Censorship Resistant Rendezvous using Cryptocurrencies
    Mohsen Minaei, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Aniket Kate

  7. Encrypted communication for mere mortals superheroes welcome, too
    meskio

  8. ConsenSGX: Scaling Anonymous Communication Networks
    Sajin Sasy, Ian Goldberg

  9. Chainspace: A Sharded Smart Contracts Platform
    Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino, Shehar Bano, Dave Hrycyszyn, George Danezis

  10. Measuring the Safety of New Rust Contributions
    Justin Tracey, Ian Goldberg

  11. Co-ordinating Developers and High-Risk Users
    Ksenia Ermoshina, Harry Halpin, Francesca Musiani

  12. Security as a community healthcare: keeping small non-profit organisations secure
    Eva Blum-Dumontet

  13. Mitigator: Detecting privacy policy compliance using Intel SGX
    Miti Mazmudar, Ian Goldberg

  14. Blockchain in AdTech
    Mike Freyberger, Miguel Morales

  15. PPAD: Privacy Preserving Group-Based ADvertising in Online Social Networks
    Sanaz Taheri Boshrooyeh, Alptekin Küpçü, Öznur Özkasap

15:20 Break

15:35 DECODE Overview "Giving people ownership of their personal data" — F. Bria (Chief Technology and Digital Innovation Officer Comissionada de Tecnologia i Innovació Digital Ajuntament de Barcelona)

15:45 Panel "Privacy, transparency & usability" — Jaromil (DYNE), Oleguer Sagarra (DRIBIA), Guillem Camprodon (SmartCitizen, Fab Lab Barcelona)

16:15 Panel "PETS as a Core value at City Councils and the role of GDPR" — Jaap-Henk Hoepman and Josep Domingo-Ferrer

16:45 Break

16:55 Poster & Demos teaser talks

  1. Inspect what your location history reveals about you
    Antoine Boutet, Alexandre van Beurden , Sébastien Gambs

  2. Techniques for Obscuring On-Screen Text from Passive Shoulder Surfers
    Steven Engler, Ian Goldberg

  3. A Study on the Privacy Implications of Mobile Parental Control Apps
    Álvaro Feal, Julien Gamba, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Carmela Troncoso, Alessandra Gorla, Paolo Calciati

  4. Introducing the MassBrowser Censorship Circumvention System
    Milad Nasr, Hadi Zolfaghari, Amir Houmansadr

  5. How personal data disclosure online can compromise the privacy of others and what can be done about it?
    Benjamin Trubert, Mathias Humbert, Kévin Huguenin

  6. Defending Against Membership Inference Attacks or Why Fairness and Privacy Should Be Friends
    Yaghini Mohammad, Bogdan Kulynych, Carmela Troncoso

  7. ClaimChain: improving the security and privacy of in-band key distribution for messaging
    Bogdan Kulynych, Marios Isaakidis, Carmela Troncoso, George Danezis

  8. Git Blame Who?: Stylistic Authorship Attribution of Small, Incomplete Source Code Fragments
    Edwin Dauber, Aylin Caliskan, Richard Harang, Rachel Greenstadt

  9. Enabling Personal Data Processing Control via Dynamic Consent
    Olha Drozd, Rigo Wenning, Sabrina Kirrane

  10. LoopTor: resisting traffic-analysis without changing Tor
    Wouter Lueks, Álvaro Feal, Carmela Troncoso

  11. Incentivising Privacy in Cryptocurrencies
    Sarah Azouvi, Alexander Hicks, Haaroon Yousaf

  12. MyBubble: Influence of Algorithms in Users’ Filter Bubbles
    Pelayo Vallina, Antonio Fernández Anta, Ruben Cuevas, Esteban Moro

  13. Web Mirror: A Personalised Reflection of Online Trackers
    Dorota Filipczuk, Richard Gomer, Enrico Gerding, m.c. schraefel

  14. PrivacyScore: Creating Transparency with a Public Website Benchmarking Platform
    Henning Pridöhl, Dominik Herrmann

  15. Transparency into the Causes of Website Inaccessibility
    Sadia Afroz, Huilin Chen, Mobin Javed, Marc Juarez, Vern Paxson, Shoaib Asif Qazi, Shaarif Sajid, Michael Carl Tschantz

17:25 — 18:30 Poster & Demo Session

19:00 — 21:00 Joint OPERANDI / PETS Welcome Reception

Organizing Committee
Gemma Galdon Clavell, Eticas Consulting
Carmela Troncoso, EPFL
Emiliano De Cristofaro, UCL
Harry Halpin, INRIA
Comissionate of Technology and Digital Innovation at Barcelona City Council


EU Flag DECODE, NEXTLEAP and PANORAMIX are funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme, under grant agreements number 732546, 688722, and 653497.