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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Socially-informed Design of Privacy-enhancing Solutions in Ubiquitous
Computing
a Workshop at UBICOMP'2002
September 29, DRAKEN CINEMA AND CONFERENCE CENTER, GÖTEBORG, SWEDEN

Organizers:
John Canny, University of California, Berkeley
Anind Dey, University of California, Berkeley & Intel Research
Marit Hansen, Independent Centre for Privacy Protection
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Xiaodong Jiang, University of California, Berkeley
Scott Lederer, University of California, Berkeley

More Details: http://guir.berkeley.edu/privacyworkshop2002
Position Paper Deadline: August 18, 2002
Format (recommended): up to 6 pages, A4 or letter size, in PDF or MS
Word format
Submissions to: [log in to unmask]

ABSTRACT

Privacy-enhancing solutions, both technical and social, are needed to
drive development of ubiquitous computing in a socially acceptable
direction. The goal of this workshop is to develop an understanding of
how social studies can inform the design and evaluation of
privacy-enhancing solutions (technical approaches and complementary
social mechanisms) in ubicomp.

When engaging a ubicomp system to interact with another agent, whether
user or system, users have to concern themselves with the
trustworthiness of the other agent, the environment they are in, and the
controller of the environment. Many actors are involved, each with
different incentives to gather and use information about the user. It is
unrealistic to assume clean separations between technical, behavioral,
legal and social factors influencing privacy. For example, from an
economic perspective, the user is in a bad situation: the agents most
able to implement privacy technologies are usually the ones (e.g.
employers, e-vendors, law enforcement) most incentivized to gather
information about the user. Conversely, the user is often the least
powerful actor in the ecology. For these reasons, it is
likely that social mechanisms will need to augment technical solutions
if privacy is to hold its ground.

This workshop aims to provide a forum for ubicomp system developers,
security researchers, social scientists, legal experts and consumer
privacy advocates to collaboratively explore the future of
socially-informed privacy-enhancing solutions (technical approaches and
complementary social mechanisms) in ubiquitous computing. Questions from
other disciplines other than computer science (e.g., economics,
sociology, law, public policy) will also contribute significantly to the
workshop.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

URL: http://guir.berkeley.edu/privacyworkshop2002
Questions: [log in to unmask]

UBICOMP2002: http://www.ubicomp.org

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