July 11, 2022

PETS'22 Workshop on Interdependent and Multi-party Privacy

Sydney, Australia and Online

**All accepted papers can be found in the program section

Background and Workshop Goals

During the last two decades, enormous research efforts have been devoted to understanding individuals' privacy perceptions, needs and preferences, and developing technical mechanisms to protect one's privacy. In this increasingly connected world, however, one's privacy is heavily affected by other people's data-disclosing behaviors, and this interdependency massively complicates an already elusive goal of attaining privacy.

Interdependent and multiparty privacy received much less research attention than they deserve. Further, research contributions are scattered across disciplines without much effort to consolidate the findings, which contributes to the lack of a shared understanding of research gaps and potential future directions.

This workshop aims to bring together experts from diverse disciplines to collaboratively build a research agenda focused on interdependent and multiparty privacy issues. In particular, we aim to identify potential gaps in theoretical constructs to characterize interdependent/multiparty privacy and measure associated concerns, methodological challenges to studying interdependent/multiparty privacy issues in naturalistic settings, and promising socio-technical approaches to mitigate such privacy issues.

We believe this workshop will spur multidisciplinary research interest and engender collaborations to understand and build usable and scalable socio-technical solutions for interdependent and multiparty privacy issues.

Call for Submissions

We invite participants to a PETS 2022 Workshop on Interdependent and Multi-party Privacy to open a discussion on theoretical constructs regarding interdependent privacy and its measurement, existing and emerging technologies’ role in creating interdependent privacy issues, and future research directions to understand and invent usable and scalable solutions to mitigate those issues, as well as facilitate the integration of research outcomes into products.


We welcome academics and industry professionals with interests in privacy/security, HCI, social computing, behavioral economics, AI, and law and policy. Interested participants are requested to submit a position (2-4 pages) or research paper (up to 8 pages, excluding references and clearly marked Appendix); suitable contributions include research in progress, concrete research ideas, and novel research methods and perspectives. We will consider research that is already published or under review at other venues. Accepted submissions will be hosted on this site (with authors' permission). Submissions should follow this Word or this LaTeX format. Topics of interest (not exhaustive):


  • Empirical research and real-world case studies in different contexts: online platforms, mobile applications, wearable and IoT devices, genomic privacy, etc.

  • Research on privacy attacks: e.g., membership/attribute inference attacks.

  • Theoretical research: economic models investigating information sharing incentives with game theory, and mechanism design; probabilistic modeling approaches.

  • Legal/policy studies: e.g., GDPR and CCPA and their impact on data collection and advertising ecosystem.

  • Experimental/behavioral research: user studies; experiments on decision-making in settings with multiple users; extensions of existing behavioral models (e.g., privacy calculus); and their impact on system design.

  • Research on economic and legal countermeasures, and their impact on system design; technical solution approaches (e.g., privacy-by-design, access control, machine learning).

  • Social science research (including ethics; science and technology studies) addressing aspects of interdependent privacy and their impact on system design


Submissions will be selected based on their relevance to the workshop, scope, originality, significance, and quality.


Papers should be emailed to idp.pets22@gmail.com according to the following deadlines:


Submission deadline: May 31, 2022 Anywhere On Earth (AoE).

Acceptance notifications: June 9, 2022 Anywhere On Earth (AoE).

Camera ready deadline: June 20, 2022 Anywhere On Earth (AoE).

Workshop date: July 11, 2022.


At least one author of each accepted paper must present the paper in-person or remotely.


Please contact rakibul.hasan@asu.edu for any questions.

Keynote

Title: The Private is Political: Networked Privacy and User Agency

Abstract

Networked privacy is the desire to maintain agency over information within the social and technological networks in which information is disclosed, given meaning, and shared. This agency is continually compromised by the aggregation, connection, and diffusion facilitated by social media and big data technologies. In this talk, I examine how these dynamics map to intersectional lines of privacy, drawing from a study of LGBTQ+ individuals in North Carolina. Because networked information intrinsically leaks, my participants strategized how to manage disclosures that might be stigmatized in one context but not in others. They worked to firewall what, how, and to whom they disclosed, engaging in privacy work to maintain agency over information. They do not navigate the idea of private and public as a binary but as a spectrum, a web, or a network. Their experiences complicate the idea of a binary distinction between “public” or “private” information. Instead, the ways people share information about stigmatized identities are deeply contextual and social.




Organizers

Tentative Program

Attendees interested in an area will join the associated group for discussions and fill out this document.

  • 13:00-14:30 Lunch and continued discussion

  • 14:30-15:10 Group presentations. Each group will present their discussion outcomes (2--3 minutes). Ideas will be combined and common threads/overlaps (in problems, research methods, and promising solutions) will be identified.

  • 15:10-15:25 Open discussion with pre-identified topics such as what are the major barriers to research on interdependent privacy, how to integrate research outcomes in products, barriers/opportunities to industry collaboration, and the role of policy and regulation in protecting data-subjects' privacy.

  • 15:25-15:30 Short break.

  • 15:30-16:20 Second Keynote and Q&A (speaker: Angela Sasse)

  • 16:20-16:30 Workshop discussion and closing. Organizers will summarize the conducted workshop and present plans for potential future collaborations.