[Air-L] For Your Eyes Only: International Conference on Privacy, Empowerment and Technology in the context of Online Social Networks

[Seda Guerses]

dear airs,

we are organizing an interdisciplinary conference on privacy and online social networks in brussels. we look forward to welcoming you.
please feel free to circulate the conference announcement in your networks.
best,
s.



For Your Eyes Only

International Conference on Privacy, Empowerment and Technology in the context of Online Social Networks

29. - 30. of November, 2012

http://www.foryoureyesonly.be

Venue:
The Egg
Barastraat 175
Brussels, Belgium

We warmly welcome you at the “For Your Eyes Only” International Conference on Privacy, Empowerment and Technology in the context of Online Social Networks in Brussels on 29. and 30. November 2012.

In the last decade, Online Social Networks started to play an increasingly important role in our communications. User privacy and security are two of the friction points that emerge when communications get mediated in Online Social Networks (OSNs). At the For Your Eyes Only Conference, young and senior academics will convene to discuss privacy and security in Online Social Networks. This will be a discussion that crosses disciplinary boundaries as well as those of communities of practice. We will approach the issues raised from legal, technical, social, and economic perspectives, and, will discuss consequences of our findings for regulation, education and systems design in six panels. 

Specifically, on the first conference day participants will focus on the privacy pitfalls for social media users. These include the commodification of their personal data, uninformed consent strategies, the right to privacy, the protection of personal data and the (absence of a) right to be forgotten. Opportunities and risks related to minors on OSNs will also be discussed from various perspectives. For each topic, regulatory challenges will be identified.

On the second day of the conference socio-technical solutions as well as the responsibilization of users with respect to privacy are central to the debate. Participants will discuss how privacy and security can be integrated into design from the early conception of systems, look at nudging as a design strategy, and present concrete proposals for improving the privacy and security infrastructures of online social networks.
We expect an audience of academics, public organizations, companies, members of NGO’s as well as governments, artists, activists, designers and developers. Together we aspire to generate visions for Online Social Networks in which privacy, security, and other user rights, needs and practices are accommodated.

Our lists of panelists are:

Alice E. Marwick (Fordham University, New York ),
 Airi lampinen (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT), 
Deirdre Mulligan (University of California, Berkeley), Ellen Wauters (K.U. Leuven), Sandra Petronio (Indiana University), 
Simone van der Hof (Leiden University) 
James B. Rule (UC Berkeley School of Law) 
Nadezhda Purtova (University of Groningen), Eva Lievens (K. U. Leuven), Tammy Schellens (UGhent), Mathias Vermeulen (VUB), Serge Gutwirth (VUB), 
Sören Preibusch (University of Cambridge), Eleni Kosta (Tilburg University), 
Orla Lynskey (London School of Economics), Claudia Diaz (K.U. Leuven), Jo Pierson (VUB), Rob Heyman (VUB), Frank Piessens (KU Leuven), Ashkan Soltani (Independent Researcher), Bettina Berendt (K.U. Leuven), 
Trebor Scholz (Eugene Lang College, New York) 
Alessandro Acquisti (Carnegie Mellon University), Ralf de Wolf (VUB), Ike Picone (VUB), Rula Sayaf (K.U. Leuven), 
Lorrie Faith Cranor (Carnegie Mellon University), Seda Gurses (KU Leuven) Adam Joinson (Centre for Information Management, University of Bath, UK), Dave Clarke (KU Leuven), Bart Preneel (KU Leuven), Laurence Claeys (VUB)

Please use the conference website: http://www.foryoureyesonly.be for registration. The entrance fee is €89 for both days, or €49 for a single day.

We are offering a limited number of scholarships to cover conference registration for those prospective participants (especially developers, activists and artists) without sufficient institutional or financial support. If you wish to apply for one of these, please describe your project and affiliations (500-700 words). Allocation to these strictly limited places will be based on the quality of the project description and the scholarships will be distributed on a first-come-first-serve basis. Please contact Seda Gürses at info at foryoureyesonly.be for further details.

The conference is organized by the interdisciplinary research consortia EMSOC [http://emsoc.be] and SPION [http://www.spion.me]. They are both IWT Strategic Basic Research projects and are involved in IBBT research groups. This conference is an event also associated with the Unlike Us network [http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/unlikeus/].