18th workshop on privacy in the electronic society (WPES 2019)

Abstract

The 18th Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2019) was held on November 11th, 2019, in conjunction with the 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2019) in London, United Kingdom. The goal of WPES is to bring together privacy researchers and practitioners to discuss the privacy problems that arise in an interconnected society and solutions to those problems. The program for the workshop contains 14 full papers and 5 short papers selected from a total of 67 submissions. Specific topics covered in the program include secure computation, secure communication, mobile-device privacy, genomic data privacy, social aspects of privacy, data anonymization, and privacy-enhancing techniques for the Internet of Things, blockchain and Web.