ACM CODASPY 2016 6th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, New Orleans, LA, USA, March 9-11, 2016. (Submissions due 14 September 2015) http://www.codaspy.org Data and applications security and privacy has rapidly expanded as a research field with many important challenges to be addressed. The goal of the ACM Conference on Data and Applications Security (CODASPY) is to discuss novel, exciting research topics in data and application security and privacy and to lay out directions for further research and development in this area. The conference seeks submissions from diverse communities, including corporate and academic researchers, open-source projects, standardization bodies, governments, system and security administrators, software engineers and application domain experts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Application-layer security policies Access control for applications Access control for databases Data-dissemination controls Data forensics Enforcement-layer security policies Privacy-preserving techniques Private information retrieval Search on protected/encrypted data Secure auditing Secure collaboration Secure data provenance Secure electronic commerce Secure information sharing Secure knowledge management Secure multiparty computations Secure software development Securing data/apps on untrusted platforms Securing the semantic web Security and privacy in GIS/spatial data Security and privacy in healthcare Security policies for databases Social computing security and privacy Social networking security and privacy Trust metrics for applications, data, and users Usable security and privacy Usage Control Web application security For more information, please see http://www.codaspy.org