This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 9th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 9 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Implementing Personal Data Processing Principles; Privacy Enhancing Technologies; Promoting Compliance with the GDPR.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 4th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2016, held in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, in September 2016. The 12 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers are organized in three sessions: eIDAS and data protection regulation; IoT and public clouds; and privacy policies and privacy risk presentation.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 9th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 9 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Implementing Personal Data Processing Principles; Privacy Enhancing Technologies; Promoting Compliance with the GDPR.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2018, held in Barcelona, Spain, in June 2018. The 11 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections named: technical analysis and techniques; privacy implementation; compliance; and legal aspects.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the First Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2012, held in Limassol, Cyprus, in October 2012. The 13 revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: modelling; privacy by design; identity management and case studies.

Never has privacy been more important than today, when businesses can track every click of your mouse and governments can collect vast amounts of information on citizens without their knowledge-all thanks to technological innovation. New technologies have made our lives better but at what cost to privacy? What does privacy mean in the Internet age? How do. we reap the benefits of new technology while guarding our privacy?

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2017, held in Vienna, Austria, in June 2017. The 12 revised full papers were carefully selected from 41 submissions on the basis of significance, novelty, and scientific quality. These selected papers are organized in three different chapters corresponding to the conference sessions. The first chapter, “Data Protection Regulation”, discusses topics concerning big genetic data, a privacy-preserving European identity ecosystem, the right to be forgotten und the re-use of privacy risk analysis. The second chapter, “Neutralisation and Anonymization”, discusses neutralisation of threat actors, privacy by design data exchange between CSIRTs, differential privacy and database anonymization. Finally, the third chapter, “Privacy Policies in Practice”, discusses privacy by design, privacy scores, privacy data management in healthcare and trade-offs between privacy and utility.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 7th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2019, held in Rome, Italy, in June 2019. The 11 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The papers present original work on the themes of data protection and privacy and their repercussions on technology, business, government, law, society, policy and law enforcement bridging the gap between research, business models, and policy. They are organized in topical sections on transparency, users' rights, risk assessment, and applications.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2015, held in Luxembourg, Luxembourg, in October 2015. The 11 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The topics focus on privacy by design (PbD), i.e. the attempt to combine technical and organizational measures to ensure the basic rights of the individual. The papers are organized in three sessions: measuring privacy; rules and principles; legal and economic perspectives on privacy.