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Abstract Deadline: pre-registration at 11:59PM August 16, 2018 AoE
Full paper submission: 11:59PM August 23, 2018 AoE
Notification Date: October 12, 2018
Conference Date: late January/early February 2019
Sensors, devices, and rich Web APIs bring novel and complex threats to user privacy along with their heightened capabilities. Users may have trouble understanding the nature of the information they disclose and the threats presented by those disclosures. Deciding when and how to seek a user’s consent (“permission”) or when that consent can be inferred or bypassed has been challenging, with different APIs, operating systems, and browsers handling things in different ways.
This workshop brings together security and privacy experts, UI/UX researchers, browser vendors, mobile OS developers, API authors, Web publishers and users to address the privacy, security and usability challenges presented by the complex and overlapping variety of permissions and consent systems that are currently presented for hardware sensors, device capabilities and applications on the Web.
The scope includes:
- user consent;
- bundling of permissions;
- lifetime/duration of permissions;
- permission inheritance to iframes and other embedded elements;
- relation to same origin policy;
- UIs and controls;
- interaction with private browsing modes;
- implicit permission grants;
- progressive permission grants;
- cross-stack permissions: how OS, browser, and web app permissions interact;
- permission transparency;
- relation to regulatory requirements;
- special considerations for systems that use the browser as a pass-through (e.g. EME and Web Authentication); and
- permissions/transparency/UI as it relates to display-less devices that connect to the Internet.
We aim to share experiences and user studies, leading to common understanding of when and how to seek user consent for use of various Web platform capabilities. We expect this workshop to lead to concrete and consistent guidance for API authors and implementers and to identify areas for further standardization or research. An important take-away from this workshop should be guidance on how Permissions APIs should be designed, both now and in the future, considering the rapid evolution of the web platform.
This workshop will build on the meeting on trust and permissions for Web applications held in 2014.
How can I participate?
Attendance is free for all invited participants and is open to the public, whether or not W3C members.
If you wish to express interest in attending, please fill out the application form. The application form asks several questions about your background and ideas; please give these questions serious thought. In addition to the application form, you are encouraged to submit a presentation topic in the form of a position statement.
Because the venue has limited space, you must receive an acceptance email in order to attend. You might wish to defer making non-refundable travel arrangements until you receive an invitation. Be sure to keep an eye on these important dates.
Our aim is to get diverse attendance from a variety of industries and communities, including:
- User and usability researchers;
- Privacy researchers;
- Regulators / policymakers;
- Privacy advocates; and
- Persons with expertise and/or experience related to accessibility, multilingual requirements, low connectivity environments, and the particular privacy needs of vulnerable individuals or communities
While the GDPR has dominated the compliance agenda for the past two years, and will continue to be a major focus of attention for the foreseeable future, the reality is most companies have to address a wide range of other privacy regulations encompassing multiple jurisdictions and sectors.
This webinar will review some of the top global compliance priorities and provide insights and best practices into how to balance multiple, complex compliance priorities across your organization.
Can’t make it? Register anyway – we’ll automatically send you an email with both the slides and recording after the webinar!
TrustArcWebinar FAQs: Click here for answers to the most commonly asked webinar related questions.
The Global Legal Forum is conceived and established by Law Pundits, with support of The Hague City Council and The Hague Convention Bureau.
The Global Legal Forum is a global platform that brings together Law Ministries, Legal Academics, Judiciary, Law Firms, In-House Counsels and Legal Technology Companies along with the non-legal professionals and businesses to engage and works together to address several issues affecting business, society and legal industry.
The first annual Global Legal Forum Conference will take place at The Peace Palace, The Hague, Netherlands.
An exploration of the emerging technologies and implementations coming out
of the Digital Identity Foundation (https://identity.foundation) member
organizations, with a focus on Hyperledger Indy and the privacy preserving
properties of these new identity networks. Come and learn how the next
generation of public identity systems are being built from the ground up to
give end-users control of their own information and online relationships.
*Speaker Daniel Hardman*
Daniel has been a software engineer, architect, and dev leader for a
quarter century–much of it intersecting with the fields of cybersecurity
and digital identity. He developed the original specs for Hyperledger
Indy’s SDK, and has contributed code or guidance to most of the Indy
codebases. He writes regularly on identity and privacy topics. He’s also
worked in machine learning/AI, supercomputers, public and private cloud,
big data, SaaS, and enterprise software, and he’s founded and sold a dot
com. He has graduate degrees in computational linguistics and business. He
currently serves as the secretary for the Technical Governance Board of the
Sovrin Foundation, and as a Hyperledger Indy maintainer.
This site contains information related to the 2018 workshop on networked privacy. This year’s workshop, being held at CSCW in Jersey City on November 3rd, is titled, “Privacy in Context: Critically Engaging with Theory to Guide Privacy Research and Design.”
Privacy has been a key research theme in the CSCW and HCI communities, but the term is often used in an ad hoc and fragmented way. This is likely due to the fact that privacy is a complex and multi-faceted concept. This one-day workshop will facilitate discourse around key privacy theories and frameworks that can inform privacy research with the goal of producing guidelines for privacy researchers on how and when to incorporate which theories into various aspects of their empirical privacy research. This will lay the groundwork to move the privacy field forward. To inspire participants and spark discussion, we will have a special keynote speaker, Dr. Helen Nissenbaum, engage with the audience about her renowned Contextual Integrity framework. Dr. Nissenbaum is a Professor of Information Science at Cornell Tech and her framework focuses on understanding privacy expectations and their implications.
Important Dates
- Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (Late submissions will be accepted through September 24th, 2018)
- Submission Notifications: September 9, 2018
- Camera-ready Deadline: September 28, 2018
- Date of Workshop: November 3, 2018
How to Participate
We seek participants from various domains for a multidisciplinary workshop to
share their knowledge and views of both the theory and design of privacy. Submission format is as follows:
- Position Paper: A 2 to 4 page position paper in CHI extended abstracts format that address the workshop themes and highlighted topics provided in the call. (References not included in page limit).
Papers will be peer-reviewed, and submissions will be accepted based on the relevance and development of their chosen topic, as well as their potential to contribute to the workshop discussions and goals. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Identification of relevant privacy theories
- Empirical studies that incorporate privacy theories
- Methodological considerations for incorporating privacy theories into empirical research
- Implementing privacy theories in collaborative systems’ design
How To Submit
- Position papers should be sent to [email protected] before or on August 31, 2018 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time.
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the workshop’s program committee. Acceptance decisions will be sent out by September 9, 2018 and camera-ready versions due at the end of September and will be made available on the workshop website.
NOTE: At least one author of each accepted position paper must attend the workshop and all participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the conference.
Contact
Final submissions and questions about the workshop should be sent to [email protected].
Speaker(s): Neil Lawrence (Amazon), Cathal Gurrin (Dublin City University) and Ansgar Koene (University of Nottingham)
Summary of the event:
The aim of the meeting is to discuss emerging issues around the ethics, transparency and biases of Information Retrieval and Analytics. Keynote speakers from Academia and Industry will provide insights on issues such as ethics, data governance, management/regulation of search systems, machine learning, algorithm transparency and data/system biases. This will be accompanied by discussions on the impacts on Information Retrieval and related areas, such as the gathering and sharing of data to model users and their context for personalisation and recommendation; the reuse of user data used to adapt/model search and recommendation; the biases and potential manipulation of search results and the societal impact of this; the explainability and transparency of search algorithms; and maintaining and preserving the privacy of users within search and recommendation.
Speaker Biographies:
The speakers are renowned experts in the field of information retrieval, data science and algorithmic bias.
Neil Lawrence is Director of Machine Learning at Amazon in Cambridge. His main research interest is machine learning through probabilistic models.
Ansgar Koene is Senior Research Fellow at The University of Nottingham. He is Co-Investigator on the UnBias project whose goal is to emancipate users against algorithmic biases for a trusted digital economy.
Cathal Gurrin is Associate Professor at Dublin City University. His work focuses on the generation and analysis of personal digital archives known as lifelogs.
Overview of Agenda:
08:30 – Registration
09:00 – Welcome and Introduction
09:00 – Keynote 1: Neil Lawrence (Amazon)
09:45 – Keynote 2: Cathal Gurrin (DCU)
10:30 – Coffee (+Posters if we include them)
11:00 – Industry Perspectives (Short talks)
11:45 – Keynote 3: Ansgar Koene (University of Nottingham)
12:30 – Lunch
14:00 – Keynote 4: TBC
14:45 – Academic Perspectives (Short talks)
16:00 – Tea (+Posters if we include them)
16:15 – Panel Session and discussion
17:00 – Close
Will catering be provided?
Refreshments will be provided on arrival and during the breaks, as well as lunch.
About the organiser:
The BCS Information Retrieval SG organises this event; find out more about the group at http://irsg.bcs.org/.
Refund Policy:
A full refund will be issued if a cancellation is received within 14 days of the booking date or by 12:00 pm on Friday 31st August 2018, otherwise, name substitutions will be allowed after this date.
For overseas delegates who wish to attend the event please note that BCS does not issue invitation letters.
