What's New

New paper, "Approximation Algorithms for k-Anonymity", is now available online for download.

Brief Description

The Journal of Privacy Technology is a refereed online journal published by the Institute of Software Research, a division of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Journal is a forum for publication of current research in privacy technology. It will consider any material dealing primarily with the technological aspects of privacy or with the privacy aspects of technology, which may include analysis of the interaction between policy and technology or the technological implications of legal decisions.

$1000 Best Privacy Paper Awards

In April 2007, the Journal of Privacy Technology (JOPT) will award a $1000 Best Privacy Paper Award to a paper published in the JOPT between now and March 31st*. The award includes travel arrangements to visit Carnegie Mellon and give a seminar talk presenting the award-winning paper.

In order to be eligible, the paper must complete the review process and appear on the JOPT's website by March 31st*. Submit papers by December 31st for the best chance of completing the review process in time for the first award.

The paper may be on any topic in privacy technology (see list at end of this message) and be written from any academic disciplinary perspective. Works must be sound and scholarly. Normal procedures and standards for publication in the JOPT apply.

The JOPT will issue three Privacy Awards in 2007. Candidates for the first award are those papers appearing in the JOPT from now until March 31, 2007*. Candidates for the second and third awards are those papers appearing in the JOPT from April 1 to July 31*, and August 1 to November 30*, respectively.

* Dates are subject to change as needed to ensure there is a minimum number of published papers completing review in each award period. The JOPT will give three consecutive awards with $1000 prize each, but the exact dates for each award may change.

The JOPT Editorial Board reviews papers for publication. The JOPT Advisory Board and Editors decide on recipients of the award. All students, faculty and staff of Carnegie Mellon are ineligible for the award. They may however submit papers for publication in the JOPT.

The goal of the awards is to cross-fertilize research across the various communities engaged in the construction of privacy technology. Latanya Sweeney, the new Editor-in-Chief of the JOPT, said, "Exalting great ideas in privacy, regardless of discipline, enables an international, transdisciplinary dialogue among scholars. We can build on each other's shoulders rather than walking past each other in the darkness of our disciplinary silos. Together, we may be able to tackle the most pressing privacy problems of our time."

This is a pre-announcement. After November 9th, check the JOPT website www.jopt.org for the full announcement with details.

The JOPT encourages the submission of papers on:

• privacy threats: algorithms, protocols, assessments
• privacy protection: algorithms, protocols, assessments
• applications to a domain
• analyses of a technology in a regulatory, business or social setting

Below are exemplary, not complete, topics:

• Privacy and anonymity in Web transactions
• Privacy aspects of access control
• Privacy aspects of accountability
• Privacy aspects of anonymity, pseudonymity, unlinkability
• Privacy aspects of applied cryptography
• Privacy aspects of authentication
• Privacy aspects of biometrics
• Privacy aspects of business model with privacy requirements
• Privacy aspects of covert channels
• Privacy aspects of cybercrime
• Privacy aspects of data integrity
• Privacy aspects of data mining
• Privacy aspects of data protection from correlation and leakage attacks
• Privacy aspects of denial of service attacks
• Privacy aspects of dependability
• Privacy aspects of electronic communication privacy
• Privacy aspects of electronic voting
• Privacy aspects of firewalls
• Privacy aspects of inference control
• Privacy aspects of information dissemination control
• Privacy aspects of information flow control
• Privacy aspects of information warfare
• Privacy aspects of intellectual property protection
• Privacy aspects of intrusion detection
• Privacy aspects of intrusion tolerance
• Privacy aspects of network security
• Privacy aspects of personally identifiable information
• Privacy aspects of pseudonymity
• Privacy aspects of public records and personal privacy
• Privacy aspects of risk metrics
• Privacy aspects of secure electronic commerce
• Privacy aspects of security
• Privacy aspects of security evaluation
• Privacy aspects of security management
• Privacy aspects of security metrics
• Privacy aspects of security models
• Privacy aspects of security verification
• Privacy aspects of smartcards
• Privacy aspects of steganography
• Privacy aspects of subliminal channels
• Privacy aspects of survivability
• Privacy aspects of system security
• Privacy aspects of telematics
• Privacy aspects of transaction management
• Privacy aspects of trustworthy user devices
• Privacy aspects of user profiling
• Privacy aspects of virtual identity
• Privacy aspects of web browsing
• Privacy aspects of wireless devices
• Privacy aware access control
• Privacy enhancing technologies
• Privacy in business
• Privacy in electronic records
• Privacy in health care and public administration
• Privacy in the enterprise
• Privacy policies and human rights
• Privacy policy enforcement and specification
• Privacy threats
• Relationships between privacy and security

Latanya Sweeney, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Privacy Technology
Director, Laboratory for International Data Privacy
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Technology and Policy
School of Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University	Voice: (412)268-4484
1301 Wean Hall	Fax: (412)268-6561
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA	Email: latanya@privacy.cs.cmu.edu

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http://www.jopt.org