[liberationtech] CFP: IFIP Summer School 2014

[Caspar Bowden (lists)]

I recommend this conference (am on PC) - Caspar

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Ninth International Summer School organised jointly by the IFIP Working Groups 
9.2, 9.5, 9.6/11.7, 11.4, 11.6, Special Interest Group 9.2.2

IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management for the Future Internet 
in the Age of Globalisation



Computer Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus", Patras , Greece, 7-12 
September 2014
In cooperation with the FP7 EU projects ABC4Trust, A4Cloud,  FutureID, PRISMS.

INTRODUCTION
Much research in privacy and identity in recent years has focused on the 
privacy issues associated with new technologies such as social media, cloud 
computing, big data, ubiquitous and ambient technologies. Due to the fact that 
many of these technologies operate on a global scale their use not only touches 
the countries where they originate (in many cases, the US), but individuals and 
groups around the globe.
The recent revelations regarding the surveillance practices of the National 
Security Agency (NSA), USA, and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), 
UK, (and undoubtedly others that we will hear about since writing this Call for 
Papers) have put state surveillance firmly back on the table. Here, too, the 
operations by agencies in one country affect individuals and groups around the 
globe. Indeed, the NSA is primarily tasked with intercepting and processing the 
communication of non-US citizens, within the US and abroad.
Privacy and identity management issues have hence become global issues 
requiring the attention of multiple disciplines, both technical (computer 
science, cryptography) and non-technical (law, ethics, social sciences, 
philosophy) and the need to look beyond national borders.
Regulators are trying to readjust the legal frameworks in which the information 
society operates, both in Europe (think of the data protection reform that 
should in 2014 culminate in the General Data Protection Regulation), the US 
(the Federal Trade Commission initiatives with respect to big data, Consumer 
Privacy Bill of Rights), and elsewhere. Leading Internet engineers have also 
agreed to upgrade standards to improve Internet privacy and security.
Questions facing the research community include: How can individuals’ privacy 
rights be achieved effectively in a globalising information society in which 
both states and private enterprises exhibit great data hunger? What 
technologies, frameworks and tools do we need to gain, regain and maintain 
informational self-determination and lifelong privacy? Do we have to advance 
the concepts of privacy and identity management in this evolving world?
These questions and many others will be addressed by the IFIP Summer School 
2014 on Privacy and Identity Management for the Future Internet in the Age of 
Globalisation. The Summer School organisation will be a joint effort of IFIP 
(International Federation for Information Processing, Working Groups 9.2, 9.5, 
9.6/11.7, 11.4, 11.6, Special Interest Group 9.2.2) and several European and 
national projects. The IFIP Summer School 2014 will bring together junior and 
senior researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines to discuss 
important questions concerning privacy and identity management and related 
issues in a global environment.
We are especially inviting contributions from students who are at the stage of 
preparing either a master’s or a PhD thesis. The school is interactive in 
character, and is composed of keynote lectures and workshops with master/PhD 
student presentations. The principle is to encourage young academic and 
industry entrants to the privacy and identity management world to share their 
own ideas, build up a collegial relationship with others, gain experience in 
making presentations, and potentially publish a paper through the resulting 
book proceedings. Students that actively participate, in particular those who 
present a paper, can receive a course certificate which awards 3 ECTS at the 
PhD level. The certificate can certify the topic of the contributed paper so as 
to demonstrate its relation (or non-relation) to the student’s master’s or PhD 
thesis.

BASIC ELEMENTS OF THE SUMMER SCHOOL
The Summer School takes a holistic approach to society and technology and 
supports interdisciplinary exchange through keynote lectures, tutorials, 
workshops, and research paper presentations. In particular, participants’ 
contributions that combine technical, legal, regulatory, socio-economic, social 
or societal, ethical, anthropological, philosophical, or psychological 
perspectives are welcome. The interdisciplinary character of the work is 
fundamental to the school. The research paper presentations and the workshops 
have a particular focus on involving students, and on encouraging the 
publication of high-quality, thorough research papers by students/young 
researchers. To this end, the school has a two-phase review process for 
submitted papers. In the first ph

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