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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. It is not, however, a forum for policy advocacy or law review articles, and papers consisting solely or primarily of such material will not be accepted. It should be noted that papers on computer security and cryptography are not considered to be suitable for publication in the Journal unless they relate directly to a privacy question.

The Journal is also interested in reviews of research, tutorials, analyses of the impact of law and policy developments on privacy technology and vice versa, and unsolved problems in the field. All such submissions are peer-reviewed and will be indicated as such upon publication. The Journal may also publish letters, short communications, and relevant news items without formal peer review.

The Journal is maintained online through http://www.jopt.org and is available free of charge over the Internet. While it is possible that bound paper copies of Journal content may be produced for a fee, all content will continue to be offered online at no charge.

Manuscript types

We publish information on privacy technology in a variety of venues. Paper styles accepted include: research, survey, tutorial, review, and critique manuscripts, as well as letters to the editor, conference notices, news highlights and articles.

Exemplary topics

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