<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">Hi everyone, hope you consider submitting to or joining us at the upcoming workshop on obfuscation.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">Best,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">Seda</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">Call for participation: 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">May 11-12, 2020. Delft, The Netherlands</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="http://www.obfuscationworkshop.org" class="">http://www.obfuscationworkshop.org</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">The 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation (WO2020)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">--------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">Obfuscation strategies in the digital domain offer creative ways to evade surveillance, protect privacy, improve security by adding, rather than concealing data, with the intention of making data more ambiguous and difficult to exploit. As the digital expands into the physical, the human and the non-human, we find obfuscation also in decision-making, moral choices, coalition-making and novel forms of resistance to the increasing use of optimization in managing our every day lives.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">The aim of this workshop is to foster interaction among diverse communities of research and practice interested in obfuscation. In previous sessions, the workshop focused on obfuscation as the art and science of privacy protection in contexts where actions are being monitored and analyzed by humans, organizations, or information technologies. With this new workshop we aspire to broaden the scope to think of other ways in which obfuscation may (or may not) come to serve people in situations of power asymmetries. We especially would like to include topics like adversarial machine learning, protective optimization technologies (POTs), as well as obfuscation in behavioral decision-making contexts by humans and artificial agents.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">This interdisciplinary workshop convenes researchers, scientists, policy makers, developers, journalists, activists, artists and other interested parties to discuss a broad range of approaches to obfuscation, including tools, simulations and experimental methods for people to obfuscate themselves and their environments in asymmetries of power and information.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">Participation guidelines</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">----------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">WO2020 welcomes two types of participation:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">- With submission:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* A 2-page position paper on work in progress (references not included in the page limit) OR</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* A 1-page description of an interesting use case to be discussed at the symposium (this may be an academic or policy/practice-based case) OR</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* A 2-page description of a demo, exhibit, art project (in any media) or journalistic piece relevant to the topic of obfuscation OR</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* A 1-page description of hands-on workshops or other interactive formats focusing on obfuscation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Papers must be written in English. Participants are encouraged to submit their proposals in PDF. Submission site is already open at <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wo2020" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wo2020</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the workshop’s Organizing Committee and accepted based on relevance and potential to contribute to workshop discussions and goals. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Please note that those with accepted proposals are still required to register for the workshop.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">- Without submission:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>If you’re interested in attending without a submission, please note that we have a limited number of seats which will be distributed on a first come first serve basis.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Registration will open on the 20th of February. Please visit the website for the details of the registration process.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">For further details on submissions, registration, location and available funding please visit the workshop's website at <a href="http://obfuscationworkshop.org" class="">obfuscationworkshop.org</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">Important Dates</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">- Registration: <a href="https://www.obfuscationworkshop.org/wo2020registration/" class="">https://www.obfuscationworkshop.org/wo2020registration/</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">- Submissions due: March 6, 2020</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">- Notifications: March 20, 2020</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">- Workshop: May 11-12</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">Organizing committee</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">-----------------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">Ero Balsa (KU Leuven)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">Caspar Chorus (Delft University of Technology)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">Seda Gürses (Delft University of Technology)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>