A curated list of upcoming privacy conferences
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- (October 23rd-29th) PrivacyWeek Wien (Vienna, Austria) - Privacy in the digital age: the last week of October will be filled with the second edition of the "PrivacyWeek". This event series by Chaos Computer Club Wien (C3W) addresses data and its tracks that we leave behind every day - online and offline. The variegated program offers everything from overview talks for beginners to deep-dive workshops for programmers. Three special theme days for journalists (Mon, Oct 23rd), programmers (Tue, Oct 24th) and teachers (Wed, Oct 25th) will offer an especially relevant program. The rich program for the mixed audience starts from 16:00 on week days and from Thursday to Sunday through. And the traditional Big Brother Awards Austria will take place on October 25th.
- (November 4-5) ORGCon (London, UK) - ORGCon 2017 will bring together expert writers, lawyers, academics and technologists to discuss surveillance, online abuse, fake news, and how we can fight back against those who want to undermine our human rights.
- (December 27-30) Chaos Communication Congress (Leipzig, Germany) - The Chaos Communication Congress is an annual conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club. The congress features a variety of lectures and workshops on technical and political issues related to Security, Cryptography, Privacy and online Freedom of Speech.
- ⭐️ (January 24-26) Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP2018) (Brussels, Belgium) - CPDP is a world-leading multidisciplinary conference that offers the cutting edge in legal, regulatory, academic and technological development in privacy and data protection. Within an atmosphere of independence and mutual respect, CPDP gathers academics, lawyers, practitioners, policy-makers, industry and civil society from all over the world in Brussels.
- (May 16-18) RightsCon Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) - RightsCon is a unique space that brings together business leaders from information and communication technology companies, government representatives, technologists, lawyers, and civil society globally to build strategies, highlight emerging voices, and showcase new technologies and initiatives
- (July 24-27) Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) (Barcelona, Spain) - The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together privacy experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. PETS/PoPETs is the premier venue for novel applied and/or theoretical research into the design, analysis, experimentation, or fielding of privacy-enhancing technologies.
- (July 12-14) CitizenLab Summer Institute 2017 (Toronto, ON, Canada) - The Citizen Lab Summer Institute (CLSI) is a meeting place for researchers and practitioners from academia, civil society, and the private sector who are working on Internet openness, security, and rights
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💡 add a ⭐ emoji for newly added conferences so that frequent visitors can see what's new. After, say, a week I'll clear that star to keep it consistent.