3rd Face2Face of the W3C Do-Not-Track

2012/01/30 by Leave a Comment Print This Post Print This Post

On Jan 24 – Jan26 we had a very successful W3C DNT meeting with approx 40 attendants at the European Commissions headquarters in Brussels:

  • The meeting has been kicked off by by John Leibowitz (chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission; transcript)
  • Dr. Carl-Christian Buhr from the cabinet of Neelie Kroes introduced the EU perspective and brought this video message on Do Not Track from Neelie Kroes
  • The Art 29 group formally send Rob van Eijk as their delegate to our team
  • Members from the FTC as well as the EC attended large portions of the meeting.
  • We achieved wide attendance including (but not limited to) Adobe, Apple, CDT, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, NAI, Opera, Paypal, W3C, and Yahoo.

We made substantial progress, have discussed and assigned all open issues (and closed many), and are now working on creating the corresponding text.

We were impressed by the wide coverage and the open and collaborative atmosphere that allowed us to achieve this progress.

More information can be found at the W3C Blog.

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CfP: ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing

2012/02/03 by Leave a Comment Print This Post Print This Post

I’ll participate in program committee of the 2012 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing.

The ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2012 is the third in a new series of symposia that brings together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners interested in cloud computing. Co-sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups on Management of Data (SIGMOD) and on Operating Systems (SIGOPS), SoCC 2012 will take place from October 14th-17th in San Jose, CA. For the first time, ACM SoCC 2012 is being held independently, recognizing the growing research fertility and societal/commercial importance of cloud computing. (SoCC was previously held in conjunction with the SIGMOD and SOSP).

SOCC Logo

Important dates are:

Abstracts due: June 8, 2012
Papers due (submit here): June 15, 2012
Accepted papers notified: September 3, 2012
Camera ready copy due: September 28, 2012
Conference: October 14-17, 2012

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CfP: The Second International Workshop on Dependability of Clouds, Data Centers and Virtual Machine Technology (DCDV 2012)

2012/01/29 by Leave a Comment Print This Post Print This Post

I’ll participate in the Program Committee of DCDV 2012. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Architecture and design of clouds and data centers for dependability
  • Faults, failure diagnosis, and recovery issues in clouds and data centers
  • Dependability challenges and solutions for cloud users and cloud providers
  • Dependability and security of virtual machine and multicore technology
  • Dependability metrics, analysis, and evaluation for clouds and data centers
  • Assured services, protocols and standards for clouds
  • Dependability benchmarking and measurements in clouds and data centers
  • Security and privacy issues in clouds and data centers
  • Sustainability issues and energy management in clouds/data centers
  • Trust, policy management and regulatory compliance issues

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Paper submission: Mar. 15, 2012
  • Acceptance notification: Apr. 15, 2012
  • Camera-ready version: May. 01, 2012
  • Workshop: June 25, 2012

The full Call for Papers can be found at http://www.cse.ust.hk/DCDV2012/cfp.html

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Publication: Article on “Clouds you can trust” in IEEE Spektrum

2011/11/30 by Leave a Comment Print This Post Print This Post

Christian Cachin and I published an overview on trusted clouds at IEEE Spektrum:

Christian Cachin, Matthias Schunter: A Cloud You Can Trust -
How to ensure that cloud computing’s problems—data breaches, leaks, service outages—don’t obscure its virtues, IEEE Spektrum, December 2011, pp 28-51.

Read it online at
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/a-cloud-you-can-trust/0

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CfP: 9th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business (TrustBus 2012)

2011/11/22 by Leave a Comment Print This Post Print This Post

I’ll participate in the program committee of TrustBus 2012. The Call for papers can be found at http://www.ds.unipi.gr/trustbus12/CfPTrustBus2012.pdf:

Important Dates

Submission deadline : April 6, 2012
Notification to authors: May 11, 2012
Camera-ready version: June 10, 2012

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CfP: 5th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing (Trust 2012)

2011/11/22 by Leave a Comment Print This Post Print This Post

I’ll participate in the Program Committee of Trust 2012. The Call for Papers can be found at http://trust.sba-research.org/CFP.html (as PDF)

TRUST 2012 is an international conference on the technical and soci-economic aspects of trustworthy infrastructures. It provides an excellent interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners, and decision makers to explore new ideas and discuss experiences in building, designing, using and understanding trustworthy computing systems.

Important dates are

  • Submission due: 15 February 2012
  • Notification: 25 March 2012
  • Camera ready: 09 April 2012
  • Conference: 13-15 June 2012

 

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W3C-Tracking Protection: Release of First Public Working Drafts

2011/11/14 by 1 Comment Print This Post Print This Post

Today, the W3C Tracking Protection Working Group has released its First Public Working Drafts (FPWD):

“To address rising concerns about privacy on the Web, W3C publishes today two first drafts for standards that allow users to express preferences about online tracking:

These documents are the early work of a broad set of stakeholders in the W3C Tracking Protection Working Group, including browser vendors, content providers, advertisers, search engines, and experts in policy, privacy, and consumer protection. W3C invites review of these early drafts, expected to become standards by mid-2012. Read the full press release and testimonials and learn more about Privacy.”

This release has triggered an entry in IBM’s Privacy Blog as well as a series of news items. My involvement in the W3C DNT Working group is partially supported by the EU TClouds Project.

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CfP: 1st Workshop on Resilient Cyber-physical SystemS (ReSyS 2012)

2011/11/07 by Leave a Comment Print This Post Print This Post

I will participate in the program committee of the 1st Workshop on Resilient Cyber-physical SystemS:

Important Dates:

  • Paper submission: December 01, 2011
  • Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2011
  • Final paper submission: January 03, 2012
  • Workshop: February 28, 2012

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CfP: 1st European Workshop on Dependable Cloud Computing (EWDCC ’12)

2011/11/05 by Leave a Comment Print This Post Print This Post

I’ll participate in the program committee of the 1st European Workshop on Dependable Cloud Computing (EWDCC ’12). The call for papers can be found at the .

Important dates:

  • Submission deadline: January 27, 2012
  • Author notification: March 14, 2012
  • Final version: March 20, 2012

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Co-Chair of W3C Tracking Protection Standardisation Group

2011/09/20 by Leave a Comment Print This Post Print This Post

I’ve been invited to co-chair the Tracking Protection Working Group of the World-Wide Web Consortium.

The Tracking Protection Working Group is chartered to improve user privacy and user control by defining mechanisms for expressing user preferences around Web tracking and for blocking or allowing Web tracking elements. The group seeks to standardize the technology and meaning of Do Not Track, and of Tracking Selection Lists.

My mission as the chair is to drive the consensus-based standardisation process. My personal goal is to ensure that the privacy requirements of individuals as well as the industry requirements are met by the emerging recommendations.

Our kick-off meeting on September 21+22 in Boston MA, managed to assemble many important stakeholders such as Apple, the Center of Democracy and Privacy, ComScore, the EFF, FTC (Ed Felten), Google, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), Microsoft, Nielsen, and Yahoo in one room.

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