10th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management - Time for a
Revolution?

Edinburgh,Scotland, 16-21 August 2015 [Abstract submission deadline: 1st
April 2015]
 

The Summer School takes a holistic approach to society and technology and
supports interdisciplinary exchange through keynote and plenary lectures,
tutorials, workshops, and research paper presentations. In particular,
participants' contributions that combine technical, legal, regulatory,
socio-economic, social or societal, political, ethical, anthropological,
philosophical, or psychological perspectives are welcome.  The school seeks
contributions in the form of research papers, tutorials, and workshop
proposals from all disciplines (e.g., computer science, informatics,
economics, ethics, law, psychology, sociology, political and other social
sciences, surveillance studies, business and public management), and is
especially inviting contributions from students who are at the stage of
preparing either a master's or a PhD thesis. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

        . big data analysis, biometrics, cloud computing, virtuality, data
          and visual analytics,

        . concepts of anonymity, pseudonymity, identity in different
          disciplines or cultures,

        . cybercrime and cybersecurity,

        . data breaches, data retention and law enforcement,

        . digital rights and net neutrality,

        . digital participation, participatory design,
          ethically-informed design, co-creation and co-ollaboration,
          ecosystems, and social actors' engagement in design,

        . health informatics, informed consent, and data-sharing,

        . impact of legislative or regulatory initiatives on privacy,

        . impact of technology on social exclusion/digital divide/social and
          cultural aspects,

        . privacy and identity management (services, technologies,
          infrastructures, usability aspects, legal and socio-economic aspects),

        . privacy-by-design, privacy-by-default, and privacy impact
          assessment

        . privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), privacy standardisation,
          and privacy issues relating to eIDs,

        . profiling and tracking technologies,

        . public attitudes to (national) security and privacy,

        . roadmap towards increased privacy protection, use of PETs and
          privacy by design as a standard procedure,

        . semantics, web security, and privacy,

        . social accountability, social, legal and ethical aspects of
          technology and the Internet specifically,

        . social care, community care, integrated care and opportunities for
          as well as threats to individual and community privacy,

        . social networks, social computing, crowdsourcing and social
          movements,

        . surveillance, video surveillance, sensor networks, and the
          Internet of Things,

        . transparency-enhancing technologies (TETs),

        . trust management and reputation systems,

        . ubiquitous and usable privacy and identity management.

For further information, see:  http://www.ifip-summerschool.org/