[Air-L] 2012 Amsterdam Privacy Conference
Geert Lovink
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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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