[Air-L] 2012 Amsterdam Privacy Conference

Geert Lovink geert at desk.nl
Sun Jan 1 02:05:23 PST 2012


2012 Amsterdam Privacy Conference (APC 2012)

See also: http://www.apc2012.org

7 to 10 October 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Conference overview
The 2012 Amsterdam Privacy Conference (APC 2012) brings together  
researchers, practitioners, policy makers and professionals in the  
field of privacy to share insights, exchange ideas and formulate,  
discuss and answer the challenging privacy questions that lie ahead of  
us.

APC 2012 intends to be a lively forum to discuss privacy issues, held  
in the capital of the Netherlands, Amsterdam. APC 2012 is organised by  
the Amsterdam Platform for Privacy Research (APPR), a network of  
researchers of the University of Amsterdam, with active participants  
from diverse fields including philosophy, law, economics, computer  
science, medicine, and social and media sciences.

The conference will take place on 7 to 10 October 2012 at the intimate  
venue of Felix Meritis in the heart of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We  
will include plenary sessions, parallel sessions, and panel  
discussions with invited speakers, as well as presentations from  
respondents to this call for papers. The goal of the conference is to  
bring together people from academia, policy makers, journalists, and  
practitioners to promote active discussion on timely topics, to foster  
an active debate on privacy issues between participants from various  
backgrounds and perspectives.

Keynote speakers will include renowned scholars and leading  
practitioners, such as Alessandro Acquisti (Carnegie Mellon  
University), Peter Hustinx (EDPS), Helen Nissenbaum (New York  
University), Sandra Petronio (Indiana University), Priscilla Regan  
(Washington), and many more.

Topics of interest

The scope of the conference includes, but is not restricted to the  
following topics:

Value, meaning and principles of privacy – The value of privacy is  
subject to continuous debate and concerns aspects including the  
universality, subjectivity and contextuality of privacy.  
Philosophical, psychological, sociological, and anthropological  
perspectives on this topic are welcome, as are those from other  
disciplines.

Privacy and security – Privacy is challenged by a continuous stream of  
security and public safety measures. Surveillance, data retention,  
wire-tapping, anti-terrorism activities, regulation of immigration and  
border control, and the privatisation of security are only a few of  
the many topics that are relevant.

Privacy and the information society – Democratic societies depend on  
making information public, a process which has undergone significant  
changes as a result of the Internet. Privacy is challenged by the  
media, cultural heritage and personal records; government  
transparency, e-government, re-use of public sector information,  
social networks, and their monetisation, digital identities, access to  
knowledge and profiling, are amongst the topics we hope to see  
addressed.

Privacy and healthcare – In the field of medicine and healthcare, the  
subject's right to privacy is of fundamental importance. Some of the  
relevant privacy issues in this field are the security of health  
information, electronic health information exchange, personal health  
records, biobanking, and total genome analysis.

Privacy and technology – Privacy may be protected in different ways  
and by different means. Privacy enhancing technologies, policy  
enforcement (e.g. sticky policies), implementations and implications  
of privacy by design, trust issues, system security, and the impact  
and interoperability of international legal frameworks on  
technological decisions are topics which are relevant.

Privacy and governance - Privacy governance is important to ensure  
that privacy is weighted against other (stakeholder) interests;  
governance includes both private and public sector. Privacy impact  
assessments, stakeholder and public interest analyses, assessments of  
current legal and regulatory schemes and the role of civil society are  
only a few of the many topics that are relevant.

Commercial value of privacy – Personal data are important drivers  
behind (new) business models serving the interests and needs of  
industry and consumers. The exploitation of personal data has become a  
business in itself. This track seeks to further analyse the business  
models, the dynamics involved, and the contribution to welfare.

Call for papers

We invite you to submit your research paper to APC 2012. The  
conference aims to be a multidisciplinary conference and is  
particularly interested in papers that illustrate a multidisciplinary  
approach, but it is also open to more specialised papers on a relevant  
topic from any scientific discipline. Accepted papers will be included  
in the electronic conference proceedings. In addition, selected papers  
will be put forward for publication in refereed journals after a  
double review.

General call for panels, workshops, and speakers

APC reserves space for contributions, panels or workshops on specific  
topics. If you have a specific topic you would like to see represented  
or discussed at the conference, please contact the organisers via the  
email address below.

Important dates

1 February 2012 - Panel, workshop, or speaker proposals (no more than  
1000 words).

15 February 2012 - Submission of paper abstract (no more than 500  
words).

15 March 2012 - Notification of acceptance.

15 June 2012 - Submission of full paper (no more than 5.000 words).

If a workshop or panel includes paper presentations, please send the  
proposal for the workshop or panel together with all paper abstracts  
at the 15th of February.

Paper abstracts, proposals for panals, workshops and speakers, and  
full papers should be sent to info at apc2012.org, preferably in Word,  
using Times New Roman (12).

For further information and questions, please contact Bart van der  
Sloot at info at apc2012.org.





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