SOUPS 2025 Call for Workshops Submissions

The Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2025) will take place August 10–12, 2025, and will be co-located with the 34th USENIX Security Symposium in Seattle, WA, USA.

Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association.

Important Dates

All dates are at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time.

  • Workshop paper submission deadline: Thursday, May 22, 2025, 23:59 AoE
  • Workshop paper acceptance notification to authors: Thursday June 5, 2025
  • Workshop final papers due: Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Organizers

Workshops and Beyond Co-Chairs

Kelsey Fulton, Colorado School of Mines

Nathan Malkin, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Workshop Schedule

Please check each workshop's website for the specific program schedule.

2nd Gender, Online Safety, and Sexuality Workshop (GOSS 2025)

The Gender, Online Safety, and Sexuality (GOSS) workshop aims to foster community around the study of online safety through the lenses of gender and sexuality. GOSS specifically seeks to share ideas, stimulate conversations, and build collaborations by creating space for current perspectives and future directions related to gender, sexuality, and online safety. Given the growing number of security and privacy researchers who study and work to mitigate online harms that impact communities and individuals marginalized by gender or sexuality, this effort includes but is not limited to addressing intimate partner violence (IPV), image-based sexual abuse (IBSA), as well as LGBTQIA+ and women and girls' online safety.

GOSS is interested in advancing the integration of feminist, queer, and critical theories into SOUPS scholars' research. Our topics of interest bridge qualitative inquiry from social science with technical security and privacy towards building enduring online safety for people of all genders and sexualities. We welcome scholars in user-centered security, privacy, online safety, HCI, gender and sexuality studies, legal and policy, trust and safety, or at any of the intersections of the above.

In mitigating security and privacy harms with a gender or sexual component, usable security and privacy has so far focused on individual perspectives, such as in addressing IPV and technology-facilitated violence. As this subfield develops, we hope to expand towards broader societal views of gender and sexuality and their interactions with holistic online safety. Societal frames of gender and sexuality are complementary to individual frames towards expanding an interdisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners dedicated to high-impact research and practice on these topics. Such centering of gender and sexuality within usable privacy and security is critical for our SOUPS community. The 2nd GOSS workshop follows the inaugural iteration conducted last year, which successfully gathered dozens of participants in person and online.

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Workshop on Developing Research Transparency Guidelines in Human-Centered Privacy and Security

This SOUPS workshop aims to discuss and jointly develop guidelines for transparent research reporting in the human-centered privacy and security community. Transparent research reporting, i.e., providing sufficient study and analysis details in a research paper, is fundamental to good scientific practice, as it allows others to review and assess findings reliably, facilitates replication, and provides context on results and their validity. So far, the SOUPS community lacks comprehensive research reporting and transparency guidelines. The workshop's outcome will be draft guidelines that will then be shared with the larger community for further input and feedback, before being published, likely by the end of 2025.

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Workshop on Societal and User-Centered Privacy in AI (SUPA 2025)

In an era of ubiquitous AI-driven technologies, privacy is no longer just a legal or technical challenge—it is a deeply human concern. This half-day workshop invites researchers, practitioners, designers, and advocates across civil society and regulation to explore the intersection of user-centered privacy and AI, focusing on how individuals experience, negotiate, and resist privacy intrusions in an increasingly AI-mediated world. As AI systems become increasingly embedded in both public and private spaces, this workshop will examine the role of pervasive surveillance and explore privacy-aware AI solutions that are user-centric, including regulatory frameworks and best practices for privacy-conscious AI adoption.

The SOUPS 2025 Workshop on Societal and User-Centered Privacy in AI (SUPA 2025) aims to develop a community of experts to share ideas and collaborate on research addressing critical issues at the intersection of user-centered privacy and AI. We anticipate that it will provide a dedicated space to exchange (and in the future create and develop) knowledge around the methods, tools, and policy considerations for user-centered privacy in interaction with AI, as well as reporting empirical research on societal impacts.

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The 4th Annual Workshop on Privacy Threat Modeling

The Workshop on Privacy Threat Modeling seeks participation in the form of research findings, new ideas, and operational experiences. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners, industry specialists, and government representatives to collaborate on the topic of privacy threat modeling. Following in the footsteps of security, privacy threat modeling is increasingly gaining traction with both academics and practitioners in the privacy community. As a result, discussion around modeling and managing privacy threats is steadily expanding. Such models can enable threat-informed privacy defense, where data about real threats helps privacy practitioners target their privacy controls to mitigate the most likely risks to their systems, and researchers focus on developing high-value threat interventions.

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