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 24th PETS will be a hybrid event with a physical gathering held in Bristol, UK and a concurrent virtual event. 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 is self-published and 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 endeavour 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 2024 submission server. The submission URL is: https://submit.petsymposium.org/.

Important Dates for PETS 2024

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

Authors invited to resubmit with major revisions can submit the revised (full) paper two weeks after the stated deadline. Such papers must, however, be registered with an abstract 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 (gc24@petsymposium.org)

Awais Rashid, University of Bristol

Program Chairs/Co-Editors-in-Chief (pets24-chairs@petsymposium.org)

Zubair Shafiq, University of California, Davis

Micah Sherr, Georgetown University

Vice Program Chairs/Associate Editors-in-Chief

Gunes Acar, Radboud University

Sadia Afroz, ICSI

Anna Maria Mandalari, Imperial College London

Rebekah Overdorf, University of Lausanne

Paul Syverson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Program Committee/Editorial Board:

Ruba Abu-Salma, King’s College London

Omer Akgul, University of Maryland

Eman Alashwali, King Abdulaziz University (KAU) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

Ghada Almashaqbeh, University of Connecticut

Mário Alvim, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG

Héber H. Arcolezi, Inria and École Polytechnique (IPP)

Hassan Asghar, Macquarie University

Erman Ayday, Case Western Reserve University

Jonas Böhler, SAP SE

Sangwook Bae, Cape

Harel Berger, Georgetown University

Igor Bilogrevic, Google

Eleanor Birrell, Pomona College

Erik-Oliver Blass, Airbus

Franziska Boenisch, University of Toronto and Vector Institute

Niklas Carlsson, Linkoping University

Sofia Celi, Brave Software

Varun Chandrasekaran, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Microsoft Research

Rahul Chatterjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ang Chen, Rice University

Min Chen, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Yimin (Ian) Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Francesco Ciclosi, University of Trento

Shaanan Cohney, University of Melbourne

Kovila Coopamootoo, King's College London

Jean-François Couchot, FEMTO-ST Institute, Université de Franche-Comté

Scott Coull, Google

Jed Crandall, Arizona State University

Ha Dao, Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Debajyoti Das, KU Leuven

Edwin Dauber, Widener University

Alex Davidson, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Damien Desfontaines, Tumult Labs

Nir Drucker, IBM Research - Israel

Christoph Egger, Université Paris Cité, CNRS, IRIF

Zeki Erkin, Delft University of Technology

Álvaro Feal, Northeastern University

Ellis Fenske, US Naval Academy

Natasha Fernandes, School of Computing, Macquarie University

Imane Fouad, Inria

Emre Gürsoy, Koç University, Turkey

Kevin Gallagher, NOVA LINCS, NOVA School of Science and Technology

Sébastien Gambs, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Christina Garman, Purdue University

Paolo Gasti, New York Institute of Technology

Sepideh Ghanavati, University of Maine

Badih Ghazi, Google Research

Ian Goldberg, University of Waterloo

Devashish Gosain, KU Leuven

Rachel Greenstadt, NYU

Johanna Gunawan, Northeastern University

Cheng Guo, Clemson University / Google

Syed Mahbub Hafiz, LG Silicon Valley Lab

Lucjan Hanzlik, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Rakibul Hasan, Arizona State University

Weijia He, Dartmouth College

Urs Hengartner, University of Waterloo

Martin Henze, RWTH Aachen University & Fraunhofer FKIE

Dominik Herrmann, University of Bamberg, Germany

Jens Hiller, Google

Nguyen Phong Hoang, University of Chicago

Thang Hoang, Virginia Tech

Sanghyun Hong, Computer Science at Oregon State University

Nick Hopper, University of Minnesota

Roberto Hoyle, Oberlin College

Rob Jansen, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Jinyuan Jia, The Pennsylvania State University

Alptekin Küpçü, Koç University

Bailey Kacsmar, University of Alberta

Pritish Kamath, Google Research

Stefan Katzenbeisser, University of Passau, Germany

Megha Khosla, TU Delft

Nadim Kobeissi, NYM Technologies SA / Symbolic Software

Konrad Kollnig, Maastricht University

Chelsea Komlo, University of Waterloo

Steve Kremer, Inria Nancy

Dhruv Kuchhal, Paypal, Inc.

Deepak Kumar, Stanford University

Piyush Kumar Sharma, KU Leuven

Russell W.F. Lai, Aalto University

Duc V. Le, Visa Research

Hieu Le, UC Irvine

Jaewoo Lee, University of Georgia

Ming Li, The University of Texas at Arlington

Kaitai Liang, Delft University of Technology

Wouter Lueks, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Ning Luo, Northwestern University

Jack P. K. Ma, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Saeed Mahloujifar, FAIR, Meta AI

Mohammad Malekzadeh, Nokia Bell Labs

Nathan Malkin, University of Maryland

Sunil Manandhar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Pasin Manurangsi, Google Research

Rahat Masood, The University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Travis Mayberry, US Naval Academy

Peter Mayer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Maryam Mehrnezhad, Royal Holloway University of London

Sebastian Meiser, University of Lübeck

Ian Miers, University of Maryland

Mohsen Minaei, Visa Research

Meisam Mohammady, Iowa State University

Victor Morel, Chalmers University of Technology

Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, IMDEA Software Institute

Sumit Mukherjee, insitro

Steven Murdoch, University College London

Jim Newsome, Tor Project

Benjamin Nguyen, INSA Centre Val de Loire

Catuscia Palamidessi, Inria

Nisha Panwar, Augusta University

Panagiotis Papadopoulos, iProov

Tobias Pulls, Karlstad University, Sweden

Reethika Ramesh, University of Michigan

Vera Rimmer, imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven

Stefanie Roos, TU Delft

Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland

Muhammad Saad, PayPal

Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary

Kavous Salehzadeh Niksirat, University of Lausanne

Adam Sealfon, Google

William Seymour, King's College London

Siamak Shahandashti, University of York

Ali Shahin Shmasabadi, The Alan Turing Institute

Shawn Shan, University of Chicago

Supreeth Shastri, University of Iowa

Yan Shvartzshnaider, York University

Sandra Siby, Imperial College London

Tjerand Silde, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Lucy Simko, George Washington University

Claudio Soriente, NEC Laboratories Europe

Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, IMDEA Networks Institute

Jose Such, King's College London & Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

Ruoxi Sun, The University of Adelaide & CSIRO's Data61

Wei Sun, UCSD

Ajith Suresh, Technology Innovation Institute (TII)

Iraklis Symeonidis, RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden

Mohammad Tahaei, eBay / International Computer Science Institute

Daniel Takabi, Georgia State University

Ni Trieu, Arizona State University

Anselme Tueno, SAP SE

Nirvan Tyagi, Cornell University

Benjamin Ujcich, Georgetown University

Tobias Urban, Institute for Internet Security & secunet Security Networks AG

Christine Utz, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Tom Van Goethem, Google

Ryan Wails, Georgetown University, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Ding Wang, Nankai University

Haoyu Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Jiafan Wang, CSIRO's Data61

Liang Wang, Princeton University

Miranda Wei, University of Washington

Xusheng Xiao, Arizona State University

Luyi Xing, Indiana University Bloomington

Attila Yavuz, University of South Florida

Haibin Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology

Zhikun Zhang, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Zhiyi Zhang, Meta Inc

Xiao Zhu, Google

Arrangements Chairs (arrangements24@petsymposium.org)

Kopo M. Ramokapane, University of Bristol

Sana Belguith, University of Bristol

Inah Omoronyia, University of Bristol

Yvonne Rigby, University of Bristol

Partha Das Chowdhury, University of Bristol

Family Chair (family24@petsymposium.org)

Nataliia Bielova, Inria Centre at Université Côte d'Azur

Publicity/Web Chairs (publicity24@petsymposium.org)

Kat Hanna, The Tor Project

Mathilde Raynal, EPFL

Local Publicity Chair

Partha Das Chowdhury, University of Bristol

Publication Chairs (publication24@petsymposium.org)

Dhruv Kuchhal, Paypal, Inc.

Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami, University of California, Davis

Artifact Chairs (artifact24@petsymposium.org)

Pasin Manurangsi, Google Research

Maximilian Noppel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Artifact Infrastructure Chair

Tobias Fiebig, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

HotPETs Chairs (hotpets24@petsymposium.org)

Luc RocherUniversity of Oxford

Güneş Acar, Radboud University

PET Award Chairs (award-chairs24@petsymposium.org)

Alina Oprea, Northeastern University

Florian Tramèr, ETH Zürich

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 (pets2024-stipend@petsymposium.org)

Awais Rashid, University of Bristol

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

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 artifact.

Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
You are invited to submit nominations for the 2024 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, 2022 until March 30, 2024.

Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award
A winner of the Andreas Pfitzmann PETS 2024 Best Student Paper Award will be selected at PETS 2024. Papers written solely or primarily by a student who is presenting the work to PETS 2024 are eligible for the award.

Artifact Award
A winner of the PETS 2024 Artifact Award will be announced at PETS 2024. Artifacts for papers accepted to PETS 2024 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 2024.