NOTE: For authors whose papers have been accepted, please update your submission with camera-ready versions on the website:
http://seclab.soic.indiana.edu/GenomePrivacy/hotcrp/

Call for papers

1st PETS Workshop on Genome Privacy (GenoPri)
Held in conjunction with the 14th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
Amsterdam, Netherlands
July 15, 2014

Important Dates:

• GenoPri submission deadline: 25 April 2014 2 May 2014 (extended due date)
• GenoPri notification of acceptance: 15 June 2014
• GenoPri deadline for revised papers: 30 June 2014

Motivation:

As a result of the rapid evolution in genomic research, substantial progress is expected in terms of improved diagnoses and better preventive medicine. The low cost of DNA sequencing will break the physician/patient connection, because private citizens (from anywhere in the world) can have their genome sequenced without involving their family doctor. An undesirable consequence of this technical progress is that genomics is becoming the next major challenge for privacy, because (i) genetic diseases can be unveiled, (ii) the propensity to develop specific diseases (such as Alzheimer’s) can be revealed, (iii) a volunteer, accepting to have his genomic code made public (as has already happened), can leak substantial information about his ethnic heritage and the genomic data of his relatives, and (iv) complex privacy issues can arise if DNA analysis is used for criminal investigations and medical purposes. Such issues could lead to genetic discrimination.

Topics:

The workshop will explore the privacy issues raised by genomics and the main envisioned solutions. It will include a tutorial and a survey of the field.

Topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to:

• Large-scale privacy-preserving analysis of genomic data
• Information theoretical security and privacy for genomic data
• Security and privacy metrics for the leakage of genomic data
• Cross-layer attacks to genome privacy (e.g., attacks induced by combining genomic data and other data sources such as online social networks)
• Access control to genomic data
• Differentiated access rights for medical professionals
• Quantification of genome privacy
• De-anonymization attacks against genomic databases
• Cryptographic techniques suited to cope with the constraints of genome privacy
• Genome privacy within family members
• Privacy enhancing technologies for genomic data
• Implications of synthetic DNA for privacy
• Applications of differential privacy to the protection of genomic data
• Storage and protection of genomic data
• Secure sharing of genomic data between different entities
• Security and privacy of the raw genomic data (BAM/SAM files)
• Social and economic issues for genome privacy
• Ethical and legal issues as well as policies regarding genome privacy
• User studies and perceptions

Researchers unfamiliar with the topic may want to check: https://genomeprivacy.org/.

No Proceedings:

The GenoPri workshop has no official proceedings. Selected papers will be made available online. They will not be included in PETS proceedings, not to preclude later publication of a full paper in other venues. If needed, authors may request workshop co-chairs to contact organizers of other venues to clarify the nature of GenoPri publications.

Submission Guidelines:

Papers to be considered include short (or position) papers (2 pages, not including references and appendices) and full technical papers (12 pages all included). In both cases, the used font should not be smaller than 10 and pages should have reasonable margins. Papers should not be anonymized.

The submission Web site is: http://seclab.soic.indiana.edu/GenomePrivacy/hotcrp/.

GenoPri Co-Chairs:

• Jean-Pierre Hubaux (EPFL - Lausanne, CH)
  Email: jean-pierre.hubaux@epfl.ch
• XiaoFeng Wang (Indiana Univ. - Bloomington, USA)
  Email: xw7@indiana.edu

Program Committee:

• Jurgi Camblong (Sophia Genetics SA - Lausanne, CH)
• Emiliano De Cristofaro (UCL, UK)
• Carl Gunter (UIUC, USA)
• Kay Hamacher (TU Darmstadt, DE)
• Xiaoqian Jiang (UCSD, USA)
• Murat Kantarcioglu (The University of Texas - Dallas, US)
• Stefan Katzenbeisser (TU Darmstadt, DE)
• Bradley Malin (Vanderbilt University, USA)
• Satoru Miyano (University of Tokyo, JP)
• Haixu Tang (Indiana University, USA)
• Amalio Telenti (University Hospital of Lausanne, CH)
• Gene Tsudik (University of California - Irvine, USA)
• Ken Yocum (Illumina, USA)

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