Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security

SOUPS 2016 which will be held June 22-24, 2016 at the Denver Marriott City Center. and is now being managed by USENIX. For more details and to stay up to date with SOUPS, follow us on Facebook, join the soups-announce mailing list, and check out the new page at USENIX.

This page is now being maintained as an archive of past SOUPS information. Scroll down for links to proceedings, photos, distinguished papers, and full conference site archives.

SOUPS Acceptance Rates

SOUPS 2015

July 22-25, Ottawa, Canada, hosted by Carleton University

Keynote: Valerie Steeves
Online Privacy For Kids: What Works, What Doesn't

Distinguished Paper Award

A Human Capital Model for Mitigating Security Analyst Burnout: Sathya Chandran Sundaramurthy, Alexandru G. Bardas, Jacob Case, Xinming Ou, and Michael Wesch (Kansas State University), John McHugh (RedJack LLC), and Siva Raj Rajagopalan (Honeywell ACS)

IAPP SOUPS Privacy Award

“My Data Just Goes Everywhere:” User Mental Models of the Internet and Implications for Privacy and Security: Ruogu Kang (HCII, CMU), Laura Dabbish (HCII & Heinz, CMU), Nathaniel Fruchter (Heinz, CMU), and Sara Kiesler (HCII, CMU)

Proceedings from USENIX

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SOUPS 2014

July 9-11, Menlo Park, California, hosted by Facebook

Keynote: Chris Soghoian
Sharing the blame for the NSA's dragnet surveillance program [video]

SOUPS Impact Award

Usability of CAPTCHAS Or usability issues in CAPTCHA design: by Jeff Yan and Ahmad El Ahmad, published at SOUPS 2008

Distinguished Paper Awards

Crowdsourcing Attacks on Biometric Systems: Saurabh Panjwani (Independent Consultant) and Achintya Prakash (University of Michigan)
Understanding and Specifying Social Access Control Lists: Mainack Mondal (MPI-SWS); Yabing Liu (Northeastern University); Bimal Viswanath, Krishna Gummadi (MPI-SWS); Alan Mislove (Northeastern University)

IAPP SOUPS Privacy Paper Award

Would a privacy fundamentalist sell their DNA for $1000... if nothing bad happened thereafter? A study of the Westin categories, behavioral intentions, and consequences: Allison Woodruff, Vasyl Pihur (Google); Alessandro Acquisti (Carnegie Mellon University); Sunny Consolvo, Lauren Schmidt (Google); Laura Brandimarte (Carnegie Mellon University)

Proceedings from USENIX

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SOUPS 2013

July 24-26, Newcastle, UK, hosted by Northumbria University

Keynote: Harold Thimbleby
Security & safety overlaps

Distinguished Paper Awards

Formal Definitions for Usable Access Control Rule Sets - From Goals to Metrics: Matthias Beckerle (Technische Universität Darmstadt) and Leonardo Augusto Martucci (Karlstad University)
Your Attention Please: Designing security-decision UIs to make genuine risks harder to ignore: Cristian Bravo-Lillo, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Julie Downs, Saranga Komanduri, and Robert W. Reeder (Carnegie Mellon University), Stuart Schechter (Microsoft Research), and Manya Sleeper (Carnegie Mellon University)

Proceedings from ACM

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SOUPS 2012

July 11-13, Washington DC, hosted by AAAS

Invited talk: Julie Brill
Privacy in the mobile world: A big task on a small screen

Best Paper Award

Android Permissions: User Attention, Comprehension, and Behavior: Adrienne Porter Felt, Elizabeth Ha, Serge Egelman, Ariel Haney, Erika Chin, David Wagner (UC Berkeley)

Proceedings from ACM

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SOUPS 2011

July 20-22, Pittsburgh, PA, hosted by Carnegie Mellon

Invited talk: Edward Felton
Privacy Policy as a Usability Problem

Best Paper Award

Heuristics for Evaluating IT Security Management Tools: Pooya Jaferian (University of British Columbia), Kirstie Hawkey (Dalhousie University), Andreas Sotirakopoulos (UBC), Maria Velez-Rojas (CA Technologies), and Konstantin Beznosov (UBC)

Proceedings from ACM

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