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CLaw: IEEE 3rd International Workshop on Legal and Technical Issues in Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things
http://www.claw-workshop.org

April 2017, Vancouver, Canada
in conjunction with IC2E 2016: IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering

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*** This workshop brings together technical and legal practitioners to explore technical responses to legal problems, and to interrogate legal frameworks for new and emerging directions in cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and systems technologies in general ***

With cloud computing continuing to revolutionise the provision of IT services, and the promises and threats of the Internet of Things (IoT) growing by the day, legal and policy concerns surrounding these technologies gain increasing salience and prominence. Existing and proposed regulatory and governance regimes place obligations on those who manage (process, use and collect) data. The end-users of applications provisioned in the cloud and IoT also have certain rights that must be respected – various parties all bear varying degrees of responsibility, which must be properly managed.

Managing these rights and responsibilities is becoming increasingly complex, both technically and legally, particularly due to the emergence of new cloud services and models, as well as because of movements towards collaborative, decentralised and mobile clouds. For instance, the cloud will play an increasing role in supporting the evolving IoT, which exacerbates issues of scale and data management while bringing real (physical) world considerations.

Building on the successes of the previous workshops, CLaw 2017 aims to facilitate an interdisciplinary exploration of tech-legal challenges as regards emerging systems technologies.

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The workshop aims to encompass a broad range of issues where technology and law intersect.
Some suggested topics, in no particular order, include:

* Technical enforcement of legal regulations, service level agreements, mutual legal assistance requests, and other instruments
* Privacy and security in cloud services and IoT
* Internet of Things: data sharing, threats, liability, audit and compliance concerns for cloud-supported IoT, fog and edge computing
* Application of cloud computing in regulated sectors
* Emerging cloud and infrastructure service models (X as a Service)
* Issues concerning the interaction between cloud and IoT technologies, and big data and machine learning
* Emerging cloud technologies (decentralised clouds: cloudlets, droplets; containment mechanisms)
* Compatibility issues between regulation and technical implementation
* Regional cloud initiatives (e.g. EU-only cloud), and other data localisation concerns
* Cybercrime: phishing, malware and spam proliferation within cloud computing and IoT
* Encryption, security technologies and responsibility
* Issues of surveillance in cloud and IoT architectures
* Anti-discrimination, human rights, privacy and power issues with cloud and IoT
* Interaction between cloud and IoT and consumer-facing business models, including the transformations towards crowd labour, algorithmic decision-making and automation


The key goal of this workshop is to stimulate a multidisciplinary discussion and new directions on these important issues. As such, we welcome a wide range of submissions, whether technical, legal or thought pieces to stimulate debate. For those technical in nature - fully implemented and evaluated systems are not essential, and application-specific papers are welcome.


Papers should be no more than six pages in IEEE format. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore, and at least one author of an accepted paper is required to present the work at the workshop. Please see http://www.claw-workshop.org/ for full submission details.


Important Dates:

* Paper submission: Dec 15, 2016
* Author notification: Jan 24, 2017
* Final camera ready: Jan 30, 2017
* Workshop date: 4-7 Apr 2017 (exact date TBD)


Co-chairs:

Jatinder Singh (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
Julia Powles (Faculty of Law / Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)


Programme Committee:

Virgilio Almeida (Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Jean Bacon (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
Frederik Borgesius (Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam)
Ian Brown (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
Andrew Cormack (JISC, UK)
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Jon Crowcroft (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
Lilian Edwards (Law School, Strathclyde University)
David Eyers (Dept of Computer Science, University of Otago)
Primavera De Filippi (CNRS, Université Paris II)
Ellen P. Goodman (Faculty of Law, Rutgers University)
Hamed Haddadi (EECS, Queen Mary University of London)
Woody Hartzog (Cumberland School of Law, Samford University)
Tristan Henderson (School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews)
Joris van Hoboken (Information Law Institute, NYU)
Ryan Ko (Dept Computer Science, University of Waikato)
Emily Laidlaw (Faculty of Law, University of Calgary)
Anil Madhavapeddy (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
TJ McIntyre (School of Law, Trinity College Dublin)
Chris Marsden (Law School, University of Sussex)
Christopher Millard (Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London)
Frank Pallas (ISE, TU Berlin)
Thomas Pasquier (SEAS, Harvard University)
Siani Pearson (HP Labs)
Anna Perini (ICT-Irst, Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
Marinella Petrocchi (IIT, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche)
Peter Pietzuch (Department of Computing, Imperial College London)
Daniel Seng (Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore)
Evelyn de Souza (Chief Technology and Architecture Office, Cisco Systems)
Dan Svantesson (Faculty of Law, Bond University)
Asma Vranaki (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford)
Ian Walden (Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London)
Lorna Woods (School of Law, University of Essex)

For further details, including submission instructions, please see http://www.claw-workshop.org