Perhaps this might be of interest to some of you: ----------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Privacy in Digital Environments: Empowering Users a Workshop at CSCW 2002 November 16, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Organizers: danah boyd (MIT Media Lab, zephoria@media.mit.edu) Carlos Jensen (Georgia Tech, carlosj@cc.gatech.edu) Scott Lederer (UC Berkeley, lederer@cs.berkeley.edu) David Nguyen (Georgia Tech, dnguyen@cs.gatech.edu) More Details: http://smg.media.mit.edu/cscw2002-privacy/ Position Paper Deadline: September 20, 2002 Submissions to: cscw2002-privacy@media.mit.edu ABSTRACT People are deeply concerned about their privacy, and are quite adept at defining limits and maintaining barriers in the physical world. Yet, in the digital world we are no longer good privacy managers. Our motivation and interest do not disappear in the transition from the physical to the digital; the systems we use strip us of the power to become effective privacy managers. Often these failures are attributable to us as designers and developers; our systems do not always provide access to information users need to make informed decisions about their privacy. At other times we overload users with too much information, making managing their privacy too much of a burden. As system designers, we have paid little attention to protecting user privacy, and even less to empowering them to take charge of their own privacy. This workshop seeks to address the privacy needs and concerns of users in the design of digital environments, whether they be websites, collaborative calendar systems, collaborative work environments, online communities, communications systems or ubiquitous computing environments. Each of these settings faces real and pressing challenges when it comes to protecting user privacy. We shall seek answers to the following questions: What can we, as designers, do to increase user awareness of what our environments are doing and how user information is collected and used? How can we empower users to manage the ways in which they are represented in the environments or to limit their exposure when needed? We seek a balanced group, composed of social scientists, technologists, designers, legal and policy experts, and others with demonstrable interest or experience in privacy-aware or identity-management technologies in existing or emerging digital environments. FOR MORE INFORMATION URL: http://smg.media.mit.edu/cscw2002-privacy/ Email the organizers: cscw2002-privacy@media.mit.edu CSCW 2002: http://www.acm.org/CSCW2002/