The 7th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet
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When : 2017-08-14
Where : Vancouver, BC, Canada
Submission Deadline : 2017-05-17
Categories : Business and Economics , Politics, Economics, Laws
The 7th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet(FOCI 2017)
August 14, 2017
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Call for Papers:
Internet communications drive political and social change around the world. Governments and other actors seek to control, monitor, and block Internet communications for a variety of reasons, ranging from extending copyright law to suppressing free speech and assembly. Methods for controlling what content people post and view online are also multifarious. Whether it's traffic throttling by ISPs or man-in-the-middle attacks by countries seeking to identify those who are organizing protests, threats to free and open communications on the Internet raise a wide range of research and interdisciplinary challenges.
Topics:
- Measurement, detection, and analysis (including metrics) of Internet censorship and censorship circumvention tools
- Techniques to detect, circumvent, or analyze the impact of mass surveillance or its effects
- Usability and performance studies for censorship-resistant systems
- Understanding censoring adversaries and attack capabilities, including theoretical modeling/analysis and surveillance tools
- Deployment of circumvention mechanisms in real-world platforms such as Tor
- Legal, economic, policy, social, and ethical analysis of issues in relation to Internet censorship, surveillance, or surveillance/censorship circumvention practices and tools
- Legal, economic, policy, social, and/or ethical considerations in the design and deployment of censorship or censorship-resistant tools
- The role of private corporations in spreading or enabling surveillance and censorship
- Effects of censorship or surveillance on individuals, society, business, or political processes
- Effects of U.S. laws on non-U.S. populations seeking free and secure communications
- We emphasize that this workshop seeks to draw submissions from a range of disciplines. As such, non-technical work that examines the wider implications of censorship and its effects will be considered favorably.
Important Dates:
- Paper Submission : May 17, 2017
- Author Notification: June 21, 2017
- Final Version Due : July 19, 2017
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