Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security

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SOUPS Acceptance Rates

SOUPS 2016

June 22-24, Denver, Colorado

Keynote: Lorrie Faith Cranor
Informing (Public) Policy

Distinguished Paper Award

Snooping on Mobile Phones: Prevalence and Trends
Diogo Marques (Universidade de Lisboa), Ildar Muslukhov (University of British Columbia), Tiago Guerreiro (Universidade de Lisboa), Konstantin Beznosov (University of British Columbia), Luís Carriço (Universidade de Lisboa)

IAPP SOUPS Privacy Award

Follow My Recommendations: A Personalized Privacy Assistant for Mobile App Permissions
Bin Liu, Mads Schaarup Andersen, Florian Schaub, Hazim Almuhimedi, Shikun Zhang, Norman Sadeh, Alessandro Acquisti. and Yuvraj Agarwal (Carnegie Mellon University)

Proceedings from USENIX

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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 Felten
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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SOUPS 2010

July 14-16, Redmond, WA, hosted by Microsoft

Invited talk: Adam Shostack
Engineers are People Too [slides (ppt)]

Best Paper Award

Where Do Security Policies Come From?
Dinei Florencio and Cormac Herley (Microsoft Research)

Proceedings from ACM

SOUPS 2009

July 15-17, Mountain View, CA, hosted by Google

Invited talk: Eric Sachs
Redirects to login pages are bad, or are they? [slides]

Best Paper Award

Ubiquitous Systems and the Family: Thoughts about the Networked Home
Linda Little, Elizabeth Sillence, and Pam Briggs (Northumbria University)

Proceedings from ACM

SOUPS 2008

July 23-25, Pittsburgh, PA, hosted by Carnegie Mellon

Invited talk: Ross Anderson
Towards a science of security and human behavior [slides (ppt)]

Best Paper Award

Expressions of Expertness: The Virtuous Circle of Natural Language for Access Control Policy Specification
Philip Inglesant, M. Angela Sasse, (University College London) David Chadwick, and Lei Lei Shi (University of Kent)

Proceedings from ACM

SOUPS 2007

July 18-20, Pittsburgh, PA, hosted by Carnegie Mellon

Invited talk: Marcia Lausen
Design for Democracy: Ballot + Election Design

Best Paper Award

A Second Look at the Usability of Click-Based Graphical Passwords
Sonia Chiasson, Robert Biddle, and P.C. van Oorschot (Carleton University)

Proceedings from ACM

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SOUPS 2006

July 12-14, Pittsburgh, PA, hosted by Carnegie Mellon

Invited talk: Max Caceres
Exploiting Usability: Client Side Penetration Testing


Proceedings from ACM

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SOUPS 2005

July 23-25, Pittsburgh, PA, hosted by Carnegie Mellon

Invited talk: Bill Cheswick
My Dad's Computer, Microsoft, and the Future of Internet Security


Proceedings from ACM