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.

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.

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