Call for Papers

The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. The 22nd PETS will be a Hybrid event with a physical gathering held in Sydney, Australia, with a concurrent virtual event, organised by the Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub. Papers undergo a journal-style reviewing process, and accepted papers are published in the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs). Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to attend and present at the physical event, where their presentations can be recorded for the virtual event and where they can participate directly in in-person research, technical, and social activities. However, in-person attendance is not required for publication in the proceedings. We will carefully monitor the COVID-19 situation, and may change the organization of the event as necessary.

PoPETs, a scholarly, open-access journal for research papers on privacy, provides high-quality reviewing and publication while also supporting the successful PETS community event. PoPETs volume 22, issues 1 and 2 are published by Sciendo. PoPETs volume 2022, issues 3 and 4 are self-published. PoPETs does not have article processing charges (APCs) or article submission charges.

Authors can submit papers to PoPETs four times a year, every three months, and are notified of the decisions about two months after submission. In addition to accept and reject decisions, papers may receive resubmit with major revisions decisions, in which case authors are invited to revise and resubmit their article to one of the following two issues. We endeavor to assign the same reviewers to major revisions. Please view our FAQ for more information about the process.

Submission Guidelines
The submission guidelines contain important submission information for authors. Please note especially the instructions for anonymizing submissions and for ensuring ethical research. Papers must be submitted via the PETS 2022 submission server. The submission URL is: https://submit.petsymposium.org.

Important Dates for PETS 2022

All deadlines are 23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12)

Authors invited to resubmit with major revisions can email the revised (full) paper two weeks after the stated deadline to the PC chairs. Such papers must, however, be registered with an abstract and an empty placeholder PDF by the usual deadline. All papers other than major revision resubmissions must be submitted in full by the stated deadline, including papers submitted to and rejected from previous issues. To benefit from the two-week deadline extension, major revisions must be submitted to one of the two issues following the decision. Major revisions submitted to later issues are treated as new submissions, due by the regular deadline and possibly assigned to new reviewers.

Scope

Papers submitted to PETS/PoPETs should present novel practical and/or theoretical research into the requirements, design, analysis, experimentation, or fielding of privacy-enhancing technologies and the social, cultural, legal or situational contexts in which they are used. Note that a paper's relevance to privacy applications is crucial for our community. PETS is open to topics from the wider area of security and privacy (cryptographic primitives, security mechanisms, differentially-private mechanisms, etc.) as long as it is clear how these serve to improve or understand privacy in technology (e.g., it includes a use case, evaluation on real data, integration with an application, etc.). PETS is also open to interdisciplinary research examining people's and communities' privacy needs, preferences, and expectations as long as it is clear how these findings can impact the design, development, or deployment of technology with privacy implications.

Suggested topics include but are not restricted to:

• Anonymous communication and censorship resistance
• Blockchain privacy
• Building and deploying privacy-enhancing systems
• Cloud computing and privacy
• Cryptographic tools for privacy
• Data protection technologies
• Defining and quantifying privacy
• Differential privacy and private data analysis
• Economics and game-theoretical approaches to privacy
• Forensics and privacy
• Genomic and medical privacy
• Human factors, usability, and user-centered design of privacy technologies
• Information leakage, data correlation, and abstract attacks on privacy
• Interdisciplinary research connecting privacy to economics, law, psychology, etc.
• Internet of Things privacy
• Location privacy
• Machine learning and privacy
• Measurement of privacy in real-world systems
• Mobile devices and privacy
• Policy languages and tools for privacy
• Profiling and data mining
• Social network privacy
• Surveillance
• Traffic analysis
• Transparency, robustness, and abuse in privacy systems
• Web privacy

We also solicit Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) papers on any of these topics: papers putting together existing knowledge under some common light (adversary model, requirements, functionality offered, etc.), providing novel insights, identifying research gaps or challenges to commonly held assumptions, etc. Survey papers, without such contributions, are not suitable. SoK submissions should include "SoK:" in their title and check the corresponding option in the submission form.

General Chair (gc22@petsymposium.org)

Dali Kaafar, Macquarie University

Program Chairs/Co-Editors-in-Chief (pets22-chairs@petsymposium.org)

Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo

Michelle Mazurek, University of Maryland

Senior Program Committee/Editorial Board:

Adam Aviv, George Washington University

Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University

Alvaro Cardenas, University of California Santa Cruz

Sherman Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Chris Clifton, Purdue University

George Danezis, University College London

Emiliano De Cristofaro, University College London

Claudia Diaz, KU Leuven

David Evans, University of Virginia

Rachel Greenstadt, New York University

Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Radboud University

Nick Hopper, University of Minnesota

Aaron Johnson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Dali Kaafar, Macquarie University

Apu Kapadia, Indiana University

Stefan Katzenbeisser, University of Passau

Ninghui Li, Purdue University

Damon McCoy, New York University

Melek Önen, EURECOM

Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA

Bart Preneel, KU Leuven

Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University

Micah Sherr, Georgetown University

Paul Syverson, Naval Research Lab

Nina Taft, Google

Carmela Troncoso, EPFL

Blase Ur, University of Chicago

Christo Wilson, Northeastern University

Matthew Wright, Rochester Institute of Technology

Program Committee/Editorial Board:

Yasemin Acar, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

Gunes Acar, Radboud University

Gergely Acs, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Shashank Agrawal, Western Digital Research

Muhammad Ahmad Bashir, Google

Mashael Al-Sabah, Qatar University

Denise Anthony, University of Michigan

Frederik Armknecht, Universität Mannheim

Oshrat Ayalon, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

Erman Ayday, Bilkent University

Saikrishna Badrinarayanan, Visa Research

Borja Balle, DeepMind

Diogo Barradas, University of Waterloo

Debabrota Basu, INRIA

Sonia Ben Mokhtar, CNRS

Zinaida Benenson, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Alastair Beresford, University of Cambridge

Pascal Berrang, University of Birmingham

Gergely Biczok, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Nataliia Bielova, CNIL/INRIA

Erik-Oliver Blass, Airbus

Jonas Böhler, SAP

Glencora Borradaile, Oregon State University

Rahul Chatterjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sze Yiu Chau, Chinese University of Hong Kong

David Choffnes, Northeastern University

Omar Chowdhury, University of Iowa

Camille Cobb, Carnegie Mellon University

Jed Crandall, Arizona State University

Robert Cunningham, Carnegie Mellon University

Lucas Davi, Universität Duisburg Essen

Martin Degeling, Ruhr-University Bochum

Soteris Demetriou, Imperial College London

Damien Desfontaines, Tumult Labs

Rinku Dewri, University of Denver

Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project

Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Markus Dürmuth, Leibniz University Hannover

Tariq Elahi, University of Edinburgh

Pardis Emami-Naeini, University of Washington

Zeki Erkin, TU Delft

Saba Eskandarian, UNC Chapel Hill

Shehroze Farooqi, Palo Alto Networks

Kassem Fawaz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ellis Fenske, U.S. Naval Academy

Ferdinando Fioretto, Syracuse University

Bryan Ford, EPFL

Alisa Frik, International Computer Science Institute

Chaya Ganesh, Indian Institute of Science

Simson Garfinkel, George Washington University

Christina Garman, Purdue University

Gennie Gebhart, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Badih Ghazi, Google

Yossi Gilad, Hebrew University

Neil Gong, Duke University

Adam Groce, Reed College

Thomas Gross, Newcastle University

Paul Grubbs, University of Michigan

Cheng Guo, Clemson University / Google

Mehmet Emre Gürsoy, Koc University

Florian Hahn, University of Twente

Rakibul Hasan, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Jamie Hayes, University College London

Xi He, University of Waterloo

Urs Hengartner, University of Waterloo

Ryan Henry, University of Calgary

Dominik Herrmann, University of Bamberg

Julia Hesse, IBM

Yuan Hong, Illinois Institute of Technology

Kevin Huguenin, University of Lausanne

Mathias Humbert, armasuisse W+T

Muhammad Ikram, Macquarie University

Umar Iqbal, University of Iowa

Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University

Kangsoo Jung, INRIA

Ghassan Karame, Ruhr University Bochum

Marcel Keller, CSIRO Data61

Agnes Kiss, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Katharina Kohls, Radboud University

Steve Kremer, INRIA

Christiane Kuhn, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Alptekin Küpcü , Koc University

Peeter Laud, Cybernetica

Arnaud Legout, INRIA

Ming Li, University of Texas at Arlington

Heather Lipford, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Martin Lopatka, Visualping

Saeed Mahloujifar, Princeton

Pasin Manurangsi, Google

Piotr Mardziel, Truera

Shrirang Mare, Western Washington University

Athina Markopolou, University of California Irvine

Abigail Marsh, Macalester College

Atefeh Mashatan, Ryerson University

Fabio Massacci, University of Trento

Nick Mathewson, The Tor Project

Travis Mayberry, U.S. Naval Academy

Peter Mayer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Susan McGregor, Tow Center for Digital Journalism / Columbia Journalism School

Shagufta Mehnaz, Dartmouth College

Luca Melis, Amazon

David Mohaisen, University of Central Florida

Meisam Mohammady, CSIRO Data 61

Veelasha Moonsamy, Radboud University

Steven Murdoch, University College London

Sashank Narain, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Milad Nasr, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Chan Nam Ngo, University of Warsaw

Rishab Nithyanand, University of Iowa

Cristina Onete, University of Limoges / XLIM

Simon Oya, University of Waterloo

Omkant Pandey, Stony Brook University

Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Telefonica Research

Stefano Paraboschi, Universita degli Studi di Bergamo

Sikhar Patranabis, Visa Research

Balazs Pejo, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Andreas Peter, University of Oldenburg

Christina Pöpper, New York University Abu Dhabi

Erica Portnoy, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Tobias Pulls, Karlstad University

Apostolos Pyrgelis, EPFL

Sazzadur Rahaman, University of Arizona

Abbas Razaghpanah, International Computer Science Institute - UC Berkeley

Joel Reardon, University of Calgary

Karen Renaud, University of Strathclyde

Alfredo Rial, University of Luxembourg

Daniel Roche, U.S. Naval Academy

Florentin Rochet, Universite catholique de Louvain

Thomas Roesler, Google

Ryan Rogers, LinkedIn

Stefanie Roos, TU Delft

Paul Rösler, TU Darmstadt

Andy Rupp, University of Luxembourg

Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary

Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Florian Schaub, University of Michigan

Dominique Schröder, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Wendy Seltzer, W3C

Mahmood Sharif, Tel Aviv University and VMware

Anastasia Shuba, Broadcom

Mark Simkin, Aarhus University

Claudio Soriente, NEC Laboratories

Yixin Sun, University of Virginia

Sai Teja Peddinti, Google

Yuan Tian, University of Virginia

Florian Tramer, Stanford University

Ni Trieu, Arizona State University

Tobias Urban, Secunet Security Networks AG

Eugene Vasserman, Kansas State University

Daniel Votipka, Tufts University

Sameer Wagh, University of California Berkeley

Tao Wang, Simon Fraser University

Tianhao Wang, Purdue University

Liang Wang, Princeton University

Ding Wang, Nankai University

Jason Xue, The University of Adelaide

Yaxing Yao, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Attila Yavuz, University of South Florida

Arkady Yerukhimovich, George Washington University

Yang Zhang, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Yupeng Zhang, Texas A&M University

Fan Zhang, Duke University

Zhikun Zhang, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Yongjun Zhao, Nanyang Technological University

Arrangements Chairs(arrangements22@petsymposium.org)

Shideh Modabber, Macquarie University

Hassan Asghar, Macquarie University

Muhammed Ikram, Macquarie University

Benjamin Zhao, Macquarie University

Publicity/Web Chairs (publicity22@petsymposium.org)

Kat Hanna, The Tor Project

Rebekah Overdorf, EPFL

Mathilde Raynal, EPFL

Publication Chairs (publication22@petsymposium.org)

Weijia He, University of Chicago

Anselme Tueno, SAP SE

Artifact Chairs (artifact-pets@petsymposium.org)

Cecylia Bocovich, The Tor Project

Bailey Kacsmar, University of Waterloo

Video Chairs (video22@petsymposium.org)

Benjamin Zhao, University of New South Wales / CSIRO Data61

HotPETs Chairs (hotpets22@petsymposium.org)

Ryan Henry, University of Calgary

Rebekah Overdorf, EPFL

PET Award Chairs (award-chairs22@petsymposium.org)

Panos Papadimitratos, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA

Sponsorship Chairs (sponsorship@petsymposium.org)

Steven Murdoch, University College London

Susan McGregor, Columbia University

Infrastructure Chairs

Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project

Ian Goldberg, University of Waterloo

Stipend Chairs (pets2022-stipend@petsymposium.org)

Hassan Asghar, Macquarie University

Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project

Damon McCoy, New York University

Susan McGregor, Tow Center for Digital Journalism / Columbia Journalism School

Andrei Serjantov

Artifact Review
PoPETs reviews and publishes digital artifacts related to its accepted papers. This process aids in the reproducibility of results and allows others to build on the work described in the paper. Artifact submissions are requested from authors of all accepted papers, and although they are optional, we strongly encourage you to submit your artifacts for review.

Possible artifacts include (but are not limited to):

• Source code (e.g., system implementations, proof of concepts)
• Datasets (e.g., network traces, raw study data)
• Scripts for data processing or simulations
• Machine-generated proofs
• Formal specifications
• Build environments (e.g., VMs, Docker containers, configuration scripts)

Artifacts are evaluated by the artifact review committee. The committee evaluates the artifacts to ensure that they provide an acceptable level of utility, and feedback is given to the authors. Issues considered include software bugs, readability of documentation, and appropriate licensing. After your artifact has been approved by the committee, we will accompany the paper link on petsymposium.org with a link to the artifact along with an artifact badge so that interested readers can find and use your hard work.

Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
You are invited to submit nominations for the 2022 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies. The Caspar Bowden PET award is presented annually to researchers who have made an outstanding contribution to the theory, design, implementation, or deployment of privacy enhancing technologies. It is awarded at PETS and carries a cash prize as well as a physical award statue. Any paper by any author written in the area of privacy enhancing technologies is eligible for nomination. However, the paper must have appeared in a refereed journal, conference, or workshop with proceedings published in the period from April 1, 2020 until March 30, 2022.

Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award
A winner of the Andreas Pfitzmann PETS 2022 Best Student Paper Award will be selected at PETS 2022. Papers written solely or primarily by a student who is presenting the work to PETS 2022 are eligible for the award.

Artifact Award
A winner of the PETS 2022 Artifact Award will be announced at PETS 2022. Artifacts for papers accepted to PETS 2022 are eligible for the award.

HotPETs
As usual, part of the symposium will be devoted to HotPETs — the "hottest," most exciting research ideas still in a formative state. Further information will be published on the PETS website in early 2022.