Call for participation in 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation POSTPONED
We regrettably inform you that we have decided to postpone the 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation because of growing concerns and constrictive measures around COVID-19 that increase uncertainties around travel conditions. We plan to reschedule the workshop for later in 2020.
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About the workshop
Obfuscation strategies offer creative ways to evade surveillance, protect privacy, and improve security by adding and modifying data instead of concealing it, making it more ambiguous and difficult to exploit. In previous sessions, the Obfuscation 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. 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 everyday lives. The 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation therefore aspires to broaden the scope and 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 behavioural decision-making contexts by humans and artificial agents.
Participation
We encourage researchers, scientists, policy makers, developers, journalists, activists, artists and other interested parties to join us 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. We welcome two types of participation: with submission and without submission. For more details, please check the Call for participation.