📢 Hello fellow researchers! We are now accepting submissions for PETS 2026, Issue 4. Submit your work by February 28, 2026 (AOE) using the link below:
https://submit.petsymposium.org/2026.4/
#PETS2026 #CallForPapers

📢 Hello fellow researchers! We are now accepting submissions for PETS 2026, Issue 3. Submit your work by November 30, 2025 (AOE) using the link below:
https://submit.petsymposium.org/2026.3/
#PETS2026 #CallForPapers

📢 Hello fellow researchers! We are now accepting submissions for PETS 2026, Issue 2. Submit your work by August 31, 2025 (AOE) using the link below:
https://submit.petsymposium.org/2026.2/
#PETS2026 #CallForPapers

Thank you all for being a part of PETS 2025!
Special shoutout to General Chair @adamaviv and @GeorgeWashingtonUniversity for hosting, to Program Chairs @zubair_shafiq and @robgjansen and all the wonderful people in the organizing committee, and the program committee for making it a success. We hope you leave inspired, energized, and with a few new friends. See you next time! ✨

📅 PETS 2026 Issue 2 submission deadline is August 31, 2025 (AOE)

📢 Hello fellow researchers! We are now accepting submissions for PETS 2026, Issue 1. Submit your work by May 31, 2025 (AOE) using the link below: submit.petsymposium.org
#PETS2026 #CallForPapers

🚀 Calling all privacy researchers!
The PETS 2025 Call for Posters is now open! Present your new ideas & ongoing research at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium in Washington, DC (July 14–19).
📅 Submit by June 24 (visa support deadline: May 13).
🏆 News this year: a Best Poster Award!
🔗 Submit now: https://submit.petsymposium.org/posters2025/
#PETS2025

Registration is NOW OPEN for the 2025 PET Symposium! 🎉 Lock in early bird pricing before rates go up on June 15th.

https://petsymposium.org/2025/registration.php

Hello fellow researchers! We are now accepting submissions for PETS 2025, Issue 4. Submit your work by February 28, 2025 (AOE) using the link below: submit.petsymposium.org/2025.4/

PET Symposium is now on Bluesky🦋. Follow us there to get the latest updates :
@pet-symposium.bsky.social

@dfc thank you for bringing this up. We'll update the site with correct paper titles.

📢 Issue 3 Submissions Open! 📢
We're now accepting submissions for PoPETs 2025, Issue 3. Papers can be submitted to https://submit.petsymposium.org/2025.3/ by November 30, 2024.
For more more details and guidelines, visit: https://petsymposium.org/cfp25.php

🚨 New Issue Alert! 🚨
Volume 2025, Issue 1 of PoPETs is now published to the website: https://petsymposium.org/popets/2025/
#pets2025

We are excited to announce the list of accepted papers for PETS 2025 Issue 1. Congratulations to all authors!🎉 #pets2025
https://petsymposium.org/2025/paperlist.php

The submission deadline for Issue 2 is August 31!

CFP: https://petsymposium.org/cfp25.php

Submission server: https://submit.petsymposium.org/

PETS/PoPETs is run by volunteers and we're looking for more people to participate. Please fill out this form if you'd like to help out!

https://forms.gle/wAadQRZWXLyDAQJA8

The 2024 best HotPETs talk is:

Automating the discovery and reverse-engineering of proprietary cryptography in popular Chinese applications Mona Wang (Princeton University), Jeffrey Knockel (Citizen Lab at University of Toronto), Jonathan Mayer (Princeton University), Prateek Mittal (Princeton University

#pets24

The time and location info for Saturday's hike has been updated. Please see the website for the new deets!

https://petsymposium.org/2024/hike.php

#pets24

The 2024 best artifact award goes to...

PRAC: Round-Efficient 3-Party MPC for Dynamic Data Structures by Sajin Sasy, Adithya Vadapalli, Ian Goldberg #pets24

The winners of the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award are (in no particular order)...

MixMatch: Flow Matching for Mixnet Traffic, Lennart Oldenburg (COSIC, KU Leuven), Marc Juarez (University of Edinburgh), Enrique Argones Rúa (COSIC, KU Leuven), Claudia Diaz (COSIC, KU Leuven, and Nym Technologies, SA)

and Client-side and Server-side Tracking on Meta: Effectiveness and Accuracy Asmaa El Fraihi (CNRS, INRIA, Ecole Polytechnique), Nardjes Amieur (CNRS, INRIA, Ecole Polytechnique), Oana Goga (CNRS, INRIA, Ecole Polytechnique), and Walter Rudametkin (INRIA)

#pets24

The runners-up for the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award are (in no particular order)...

Exploring the Privacy Experiences of Closeted Users of Online Dating Services in the US Elijah Bouma-Sims (Carnegie Mellon University), Sanjnah Ananda Kumar (Carnegie Mellon University), Lorrie Faith Cranor (Carnegie Mellon University)

and Media talks Privacy: Unraveling a Decade of Privacy Discourse around the World Shujaat Mirza (New York University), Corban Villa (New York University Abu Dhabi), and Christina Poepper (New York University Abu Dhabi)

and Over Fences and Into Yards: Privacy Threats and Concerns of Commercial Satellites Rachel McAmis (University of Washington), Mattea Sim (University of Indiana Bloomington), Mia Bennett (University of Washington), Tadayoshi Kohno (University of Washington)

and Interest-disclosing Mechanisms for Advertising are Privacy-Exposing (not Preserving) Yohan Beugin (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Patrick McDaniel (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

#pets24