[liberationtech] Call for Contributions for TICS: Topics on Internet Censorship and Surveillance

[Gunnar Wolf]

TICS¹ (Topics on Internet Censorship and Surveillance), a Special
Track of ICN² (18th International Conference on Networks), organized
by IARIA, will be held in Valencia, Spain, 2019.03.24 – 2019.03.28.

   ¹ https://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/filesICN19/TICS.pdf
   ² https://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/ICN19.html

Over the past years there has been a greater demand for online
censorship and surveillance, as an understandable reaction against
hate speech, copyright violations, and other cases related to citizen
compliance with civil laws and regulations by national
authorities. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by a tendency of
extensively censoring online content and massively spying on citizens
actions. Numerous whistleblower revelations, leaks from classified
documents, and a vast amount of information released by activists,
researchers and journalists, reveal evidence of government-sponsored
infrastructure that either goes beyond the requirements and scope of
the law, or operates without any effective regulations in place. In
addition, this infrastructure often supports the interests of big
private corporations, such as the companies that enforce online
copyright control.

TICS is a special track the area of Internet censorship, surveillance
and other adversarial burdens to technology that bring in danger; to a
greater extent the safety (physical security and privacy) of its
users.

Proposals for TICS 2019 should be situated within the field of
Internet censorship, network measurements, information controls,
surveillance and content moderation. Ideally topics should connect to
the following , but not limited to:

 ‣ Technical, social, political, and economical implications of
   Internet censorship and surveillance

 ‣ Detection and analysis of network blocking and surveillance
   infrastructure (hardware or software)

 ‣ Research on legal frameworks, regulations and policies that imply
   blocking or limitation of the availability of network services and
   online content

 ‣ Online censorship circumvention and anti-surveillance practices

 ‣ Network measurements methodologies to detect and categorize network
   interference
	
 ‣ Research on the implications of automated or centralized user
   content regulation (such as for hate speech, copyright, or
   disinformation)

Important Datelines:
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- Inform the Chairs: As soon as you decide to contribute!
- Submission: 2019.01.29
- Notification: 2019.02.18
- Registration: 2019.02.27
- Camera-ready: 2019.02.27

Track Chairs:
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- Vasilis Ververis, PhD Candidate, Humboldt University Berlin,
  Germany; ververis at kth.se
- Marios Isaakidis, PhD Canditate, University College London, UK;
  m.isaakidis at cs.ucl.ac.uk
- Gunnar Wolf, M. Eng., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
  Mexico; gwolf at gwolf.org

Submission URL:
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https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=ICN+2019+Special

Make sure to select TICS as your track preference!