Nominations for the 2024 award are open! See the call for nominations to learn how to nominate your favorite privacy paper.

The Caspar Bowden PET award carries a USD $3000 prize and comes with a statue to commemorate the award. The Caspar Bowden Legacy Fund sponsors the statue.

For the list of past winners and runners-up, please visit the Winners page.

About Caspar: Caspar Bowden worked for over 20 years tirelessly advocating for the right to privacy and freedom from mass surveillance. He believed deeply in privacy enhancing technologies as a means to protect these rights and was involved in the PETS community for most of its history. Caspar served on the PoPETs/PETS advisory board and was instrumental in both creating the PET Award and securing its initial funding.