Location Privacy Workshop (LPW) 2019

@ ARES 2019 - University of Kent, Canterbury, UK - August 27, 2019

NEWS:
29/07/2019 ‒ The program and list of accepted papers are now online. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. George Theodorakopoulos, Cardiff University.
30/04/2019 ‒ The paper submission deadline has been extended to May 10.
11/04/2019 ‒ Selected papers from the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA)
04/03/2019 ‒ Paper submission is now open. Deadline: 30/4/2019

LPW'19 ‒ The First Location Privacy Workshop

Location and mobility data are highly sensitive, as they can be used to infer a number of other personal and sensitive data on an individual. However, human mobility is highly predictable, and location information is routinely collected by location-aware devices (e.g. smartphones), connected vehicles and smart transportation systems, e-tolling, and cameras with face recognition among others.

Location privacy is a rapidly developing research area, and the first Location Privacy Workshop (LPW) provides a platform for original research and discussion on all technical aspects of privacy and security of location-based services.

ACM ICPS

Accepted papers will appear in the main conference proceedings (ARES 2019), published by ACM on the International Conference Proceedings Series (ACM ICPS). They will be available on the ACM digital library indexed by Scopus, dblp, etc.

ACM

Topics of interest

  • Security of location-aware mobile devices
  • Privacy-enhancing technologies for location-based services
  • Privacy and anonymity in (public) transportation systems
  • Privacy in connected autonomous vehicles
  • Security of smart mobility applications
  • Privacy in location-aware social media
  • Privacy in position-based advertising
  • Malicious and pervasive tracking, de-anonymization
  • Cryptographic protocols and schemes for location information
  • Data structures for location information
  • Security and reliability of positioning systems
  • Location verification and authentication
  • Location forensics
  • Data protection techniques for regulatory (GDPR) compliance
  • …and any other related topic

Call for Papers

The Call for Papers is available for download:

PDF file

TXT file

Feel free to distribute it!

Submission

Perspective authors are invited to submit novel contributions, application papers and case studies. Submission should be 6-8 pages in the double-column ACM conference format (template below). Submissions must be anonymous with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition.

All accepted papers will be published on the ACM digital library alongside the main conference proceedings, and indexed in Scopus, dblp, etc. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the ARES 2019 conference.

Submissions are accepted through EasyChair (select track LPW 2019):
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2019

Submitted paper must adhere to the ACM SigConf template: LaTeX (recommended), Word.

Program Chairs

  • Paolo Palmieri ‒
    University College Cork, Ireland
  • Luca Calderoni ‒
    Università di Bologna, Italy

Program Committee

  • Antoine Boutet ‒ INSA de Lyon, France
  • Mauro Conti ‒ University of Padua, Italy
  • Chhagan Doot ‒ University of Padua, Italy
  • Zekeriya Erkin ‒ Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Sébastien Gambs ‒ Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
  • Kimmo Järvinen ‒ University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Ioannis Krontiris ‒ Huawei European Research Center, Germany
  • Jelena Milosevic ‒ TU Vienna, Austria
  • Jun Pang ‒ University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • Constantinos Patsakis ‒ University of Piraeus, Greece
  • Francesco Regazzoni ‒ University of Lugano, Switzerland
  • Simonas Šaltenis ‒ Aalborg University, Denmark
  • Michael Solomon ‒ University of Cumberlands, USA
  • Guillermo Suarez de Tangil ‒ King’s College London, UK

Important dates

All deadlines are at 23:59 Anywhere On Earth (AOE).

  • Submission deadline: April 30, 2019 May 10, 2019 (extended)
  • Authors notification: June 10, 2019
  • Camera-Ready Papers Due: June 23, 2019
  • Workshop day: TBA (between August 26-29, 2019)

Program

Session IChair: Paolo Palmieri
KeynoteGeorge Theodorakopoulos"Location privacy from a statistical perspective"
Paper 1Stephen Wicker"eBook Readers, Location Surveillance and the Threat to Freedom of Association"
Session IIChair: Luca Calderoni
Paper 2Thanassis Giannetsos, Ioannis Krontiris"Securing V2X Communications for the Future - Can PKI Systems offer the answer?"
Paper 3Khuong An Nguyen, Raja Naeem Akram, Konstantinos Markantonakis, Zhiyuan Luo, Chris Watkins"Location Tracking Using Smartphone Accelerometer and Magnetometer Traces"
Session IIIChair: Paolo Palmieri
Paper 4Matthias Caesar, Jan Steffan"A Location Privacy Analysis of Bluetooth Mesh"
Paper 5Paul Yoo, Luke Parker, Taufiq Asyhari, Yoonchan Jhi, Kamal Taha, Lounis Chermak"DEMISe: Interpretable Deep Extraction and Mutual Information Selection Techniques for IoT Intrusion Detection"

Please refer to the full ARES program for details on the times and location.



Keynote

Location privacy from a statistical perspective

Dr. George Theodorakopoulos, Cardiff University

One way to view privacy in general, and location privacy in particular, is as a statistical inference problem: The adversary makes noisy observations of the user's true information (location) and then tries to infer the actual value. This leads naturally to a game between the user and the adversary, in which the user may also be constrained in the amount of noise that can be added. This talk will explore past and current results in this area, and contrast the statistical point of view with other approaches to location privacy.

George Theodorakopoulos received the Diploma degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 2002, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, in 2004 and 2007, all in electrical and computer engineering. He received the Best Paper award at the ACM Workshop on Wireless Security, October 2004, for "Trust evaluation in ad-hoc networks" and the 2007 IEEE ComSoc Leonard Abraham prize for "On trust models and trust evaluation metrics for ad hoc networks." He coauthored "Quantifying Location Privacy," which was runner-up for the 2012 PET Award (Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies).

Venue

LWP is co-located with ARES 2019, and will be held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Please refer to the conference website for more information.