[Air-L] CFP: Legal/Tech Issues in Cloud and IoT (CLaw 2017)

[Jat Singh]

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CLaw: IEEE 3rd International Workshop on Legal and Technical Issues in
Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things
   http://www.claw-workshop.org

April 2017, Vancouver, Canada
in conjunction with IC2E 2016: IEEE International Conference on Cloud
Engineering

(apologies for cross-posting)

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*** This workshop brings together technical and legal practitioners to
explore technical responses to legal problems, and to interrogate
legal frameworks for new and emerging directions in cloud computing,
the Internet of Things, and systems technologies in general ***

With cloud computing continuing to revolutionise the provision of IT
services, and the promises and threats of the Internet of Things (IoT)
growing by the day, legal and policy concerns surrounding these
technologies gain increasing salience and prominence. Existing and
proposed regulatory and governance regimes place obligations on those
who manage (process, use and collect) data. The end-users of
applications provisioned in the cloud and IoT also have certain rights
that must be respected – various parties all bear varying degrees of
responsibility, which must be properly managed.

Managing these rights and responsibilities is becoming increasingly
complex, both technically and legally, particularly due to the
emergence of new cloud services and models, as well as because of
movements towards collaborative, decentralised and mobile clouds. For
instance, the cloud will play an increasing role in supporting the
evolving IoT, which exacerbates issues of scale and data management
while bringing real (physical) world considerations.

Building on the successes of the previous workshops, CLaw 2017 aims to
facilitate an interdisciplinary exploration of tech-legal challenges
as regards emerging systems technologies.

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The workshop aims to encompass a broad range of issues where
technology and law intersect. Some suggested topics, in no particular
order, include:

* Technical enforcement of legal regulations, service level
agreements, mutual legal assistance requests, and other instruments
* Privacy and security in cloud services and IoT
* Internet of Things: data sharing, threats, liability, audit and
compliance concerns for cloud-supported IoT, fog and edge computing
* Application of cloud computing in regulated sectors
* Emerging cloud and infrastructure service models (X as a Service)
* Issues concerning the interaction between cloud and IoT
technologies, and big data and machine learning
* Emerging cloud technologies (decentralised clouds: cloudlets,
droplets; containment mechanisms)
* Compatibility issues between regulation and technical implementation
* Regional cloud initiatives (e.g. EU-only cloud), and other data
localisation concerns
* Cybercrime: phishing, malware and spam proliferation within cloud
computing and IoT
* Encryption, security technologies and responsibility
* Issues of surveillance in cloud and IoT architectures
* Anti-discrimination, human rights, privacy and power issues with cloud and IoT
* Interaction between cloud and IoT and consumer-facing business
models, including the transformations towards crowd labour,
algorithmic decision-making and automation


The key goal of this workshop is to stimulate a multidisciplinary
discussion and new directions on these important issues. As such, we
welcome a wide range of submissions, whether technical, legal or
thought pieces to stimulate debate. For those technical in nature -
fully implemented and evaluated systems are not essential, and
application-specific papers are welcome.

Papers should be no more than six pages in IEEE format. Accepted
papers will be published in IEEE Xplore, and at least one author of an
accepted paper is required to present the work at the workshop.


Important Dates:

* Paper submission: Dec 1, 2016
* Author notification: Jan 10, 2017
* Final camera ready: Jan 15, 2017
* Workshop date: 4-7 Apr 2017 (exact date TBD)


For further details, including submission instructions, please see
http://www.claw-workshop.org/