Privacy and anonymity

Privacy and anonymity are
increasingly important in the online world. Corporations,
governments, and other organizations are realizing and exploiting
their power to track users and their behavior. Approaches to
protecting individuals, groups, but also companies and governments
from profiling and censorship include decentralization, encryption,
distributed trust, and automated policy disclosure.

The Privacy and Trust Enhancing
Technologies addresses the design and realization of such privacy
services for the Internet and other communication networks by
bringing together anonymity and privacy experts from around the world
to discuss recent advances and new perspectives.

The TN from academia and industry
presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of
T&P technologies, as well as experimental studies of fielded
systems. We encourage participation from other communities such as
law and business that present their perspectives on technological
issues. In a departure from previous years, the symposium proceedings
will be available at the event, rather than after it. They will
continue to be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series.

Suggested topics include but are not
restricted to:

* Anonymous communications and
publishing systems

* Censorship resistance

* Pseudonyms, identity management,
linkability, and reputation

* Data protection technologies

* Location privacy

* Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing
Environments

* Policy, law, and human rights
relating to privacy

* Privacy and anonymity in
peer-to-peer architectures

* Economics of privacy

* Fielded systems and techniques
for enhancing privacy in existing systems

* Protocols that preserve
anonymity/privacy

* Privacy-enhanced access control
or authentication/certification

* Privacy threat models

* Models for anonymity and
unobservability

* Attacks on anonymity systems

* Traffic analysis

* Profiling and data mining

* Privacy vulnerabilities and their
impact on phishing and identity theft

* Deployment models for privacy
infrastructures

* Novel relations of payment
mechanisms and anonymity

* Usability issues and user
interfaces for PETs

* Reliability, robustness and abuse
prevention in privacy systems