[ecrea] CfP Workshop on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media

CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media (PSOSM)
http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/psosm_www2012/
Co-located with 21st International World Wide Web Conference
Lyon, France
April 16 - 20, 2012

With increase in usage of the Internet, there has been an exponential
increase in the use of online social media on the Internet. Websites
like Facebook, YouTube, Orkut, Twitter and Flickr have changed the way
Internet is being used. There is a dire need to investigate, study and
characterize privacy and security of online social media from various
perspectives (computational, cultural, psychological). Real world
scalable systems need to be built to detect and defend security and
privacy issues on online social media. The main goals of the workshop
are: (1) To create a platform to discuss latest issues, trends, and
cutting-edge research approaches in security and privacy in online
social media; (2) to bring researchers who are working on issues related
to security and privacy on the Internet, and those studying online
social media, to discuss the problems that overlap and bring these two
areas together.

Topics / themes include, but not limited to the following:
- Information privacy disclosure, revelation and its effects in online
social networks
- Collateral damage due to information leakage (e.g. through photo
tagging) on OSM
- Privacy issues related to location based services on OSM
- Effective and usable privacy setting and policies on OSM
- Anonymization of social network datasets
- Detection and characterization of spam, phishing, frauds, hate crime,
abuse, extremism via online social media
- Cyber-bullying, abuse and harassment detection, and prevention strategies
- Identifying and curbing malware, phishing, and botnets on OSM
- Filtering of pornography, viruses, and human trafficking related
content or entities on OSM
- Studying the social and economic impact of security and privacy issues
on OSM
- Usability (including design flaws) of secure systems on online social
media
- Data modeling of human behavior in context of security and privacy threats
- Privacy and security issues in social gaming applications
- Trust systems based on social networks
- Legal and ethical issues for researchers studying security and privacy
on OSM
- Information credibility on online social media
- Security and privacy challenges in new entrants in OSM (e.g. Google Plus)
- Effect of OSM on conventional crime (robberies and theft)

Important dates
Abstract submission: February 20th, 2012
Manuscripts due: February 23rd, 2012
Notification of acceptance: March 8th, 2012
Final revised manuscript: April 5th, 2012
Workshop: April 17th, 2012 (Full day)

Workshop chairs
- Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, pk [at] iiitd [dot] ac [dot] in
- Prof. Virgilo Almeida

For more information: http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/psosm_www2012/
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Dr. Maura Conway
School of Law and Government
Dublin City University
Glasnevin
Dublin 9
Ireland

Tel. +353 1 700 6472
E-Mail. (maura.conway /at/ dcu.ie)
Skype. galwaygrrl

Twitter: @TNMConference

Website: http://doras.dcu.ie/view/people/Conway,_Maura.html


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