The workshop on Security and Privacy in Digital Advertising (SPA) will take place during IEEE CNS 2017 in Las Vegas, NV USA, Oct 9-11, 2017.Digital advertising is one of the fastest-growing businesses of contemporary economy: a worldwide market which is already worth more than 200 billion dollars per year, and expected to almost double by 2020. In addition, the global spread of mobile devices, widespread adoption of pervasive IoT technologies, as well as broad diffusion of social media applications have been changing the original target of digital advertising, therefore reaching out to an unprecedented number of users almost anytime and anywhere. Given the multi-billion dollars nature of the advertising market and the lack of legislation against ad fraud in many countries, fraudsters have a strong economic incentive to perpetrate fraudulent activities and exploit vulnerabilities of online advertising systems.
Papers primarily based on (but not limited to) the following topics are welcome: (Topics include but not limited to)