CFP summary
The 26th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2026) is a leading forum for research on privacy technologies, policy, and practice. The symposium brings together researchers and practitioners working on the design, analysis, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of privacy-enhancing technologies, with scope spanning computer science, communications, social sciences, economics, and policy. PETS 2026 will be held in Calgary as a hybrid event and continues the long-running PETS series focused on both foundational advances and real-world privacy challenges.
Topics
Privacy-enhancing technologies; anonymity and pseudonymity systems; censorship circumvention; traffic analysis defenses; communication systems and metadata privacy; privacy in machine learning and AI; genomic and health privacy; location and Web privacy; privacy measurements and attacks; transparency and accountability; usable privacy and human factors; applied cryptography for privacy; differential privacy; privacy policy, economics, and deployment issues.