The deadline for abstracts for PLSC-Europe 2017 (European Privacy Law Scholars Conference) and the TILTing Perspectives 2017 conference is this coming Sunday, November 20th. Please consider submitting your work and sharing this call with your colleagues who may also be interested. The conference has tracks focused on Data Science, Healthcare, Intellectual Property, and Privacy (including PLSC-Europe), as well as a series of GikII-style events on the final day of the conference. The conference will be in Tilburg (Netherlands), from May 17-19, 2017. *The deadline for all submissions is November 20.* To submit, and for more information, please go to http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/tilting2017. The general call for papers, as well as special instructions for PLSC submissions is at https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/ti... . *Confirmed keynote speakers for the TILTing Perspectives 2017 Conference:* - Solon Barocas (Microsoft Research) - John M. Golden (UT-Austin School of Law) - Flis Henwood (University of Brighton) - Gary T. Marx (Professor Emeritus, M.I.T.) - Sean McDonald (CEO, FrontlineSMS) - Irene Schlünder (German ELSI expert for BBMRI-ERIC) - Christopher Slobogin (Vanderbilt Law School) - Maciej Szpunar (Court of Justice of the EU, Professor of Law, University of Silesia) *Information about the Privacy Track and PLSC-Europe* The definition and boundaries of privacy, as both a philosophical concept and a legal right, have been hotly debated in recent years. Indeed, emerging technologies have continually challenged traditional conceptions of privacy that relate to “private life,” the public/private dichotomy, or property (e.g. “my home is my castle”). Many people now carry devices throughout the public sphere that contain (access to) vast quantities of information about their private lives or maintain technologies in their homes that sense and collect potentially sensitive data—technologies that often have porous digital walls, connect to external networks, and store information in distant servers. As a consequence, governments and companies (as well as other private parties) have an increasing number of entry points to invade personal privacy. This track will include both a general privacy track as well as the 2nd European edition of the Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC-Europe).[1] The general track will encompass a variety of events, including paper presentations, panels, roundtable discussions, and invited talks. PLSC-Europe events will follow the traditional PLSC model, in which papers will be presented and commented on by discussants and other participants (who are all expected to have read the papers in advance). For submissions to the general track, proposals are especially welcomed within the theme of privacy, technology, and space(s), including issues related to privacy in private or public spaces (e.g., homes or streets), and privacy issues generated by the fact that information that used to be stored in private physical spaces (e.g. inside a person’s home, office, desk, or safe) is now often stored on mobile devices or in less-private “virtual” spaces (e.g., cloud storage) that offer less practical and/or legal protection against intrusions by private or public actors. The primary focus of the general track is on privacy law, rather than data protection, but proposals focusing on data protection are also welcome. Submissions to PLSC-Europe may focus on any aspect of privacy or data protection law. Submissions to the general privacy track and PLSC-Europe will be handled separately. *PhD Student Registration-fee waivers*: We are pleased to announce that we will be waiving the conference registration fees for two (2) PhD Students whose work is accepted for presentation in either PLSC-Europe or the broader Privacy Track. Waivers will be awarded selectively by the Privacy Track program committee. To be considered for one of these waivers, please indicate your PhD-student status in your submission. *Suggested themes* Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the ethical, legal, organizational and/or social challenges related to: - The relationships between privacy, technology, and public/private spaces - The evaporation of the physical home as a stronghold for privacy - Privacy crimes (e.g. voyeurism, revenge porn, stalking, eavesdropping, trespassing, hacking) - Privacy, criminal procedure, and the regulation of police powers - Surveillance and privacy - Privacy and mobile devices - Privacy in the cloud - Technologically-facilitated intrusions into private life - Privacy in smart cities - Privacy and the Internet of Things (e.g., smart toys, connected devices) - Privacy of body and mind *Questions* For questions about possible presentation topics for the Privacy Track, please contact the track chair, Dr. Bryce C. Newell, at B.C.Newell@tilburguniversity.edu. [1] Based on the popular PLSC event in United States, PLSC-Europe is dedicated to bringing together privacy law scholars, practitioners, and privacy scholars from other disciplines from across Europe and beyond to discuss current issues and foster greater connections between academia and practice. The first PLSC-Europe was held in October 2015 in conjunction with the Amsterdam Privacy Conference. From 2017 onwards, PLSC-Europe will become an annual event co-organized by the University of Amsterdam (IvIR), Tilburg University (TILT), and the Free University Brussels (LSTS/Brussels Privacy Hub), alternating between Amsterdam, Tilburg, and Brussels.