The 12th IEEE International Conference on Privacy Computing and Data Security (PCDS)
PCDS-2026 is the 12th of a conference series started in 2015, which is dedicated to research on privacy computing and data security. The conference provides a forum for researchers, engineers and practitioners in academia, industry and the public sector around the world to report latest research work and exchange ideas in all aspects of privacy computing and data security, including those for improving the efficiency, performance, reliability, and interoperability of privacy computing and data security systems.
PCDS 2026 follows the traditions of the previous successful PCDS 2025 held in Hakodate, Japan and PCDS 2024 held in The Republic of Fiji, and PriComp conferences series, held in Fuzhou, China (2015); Qingdao, China (2016); Melbourne, Australia (2017); Boppard, Germany (2018); Canterbury, UK (2019); Lingshui, China (2020); Xi’an, Shanghai, China (online, 2021); Haikou, China (2022); Portsmouth, UK (2023). PCDS 2026 will be held in Jeju, South Korea. The conference is co-organized by the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xidian University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
Important Date
- Paper Submission Deadline:
31 Mar 202615 April 2026 - Authors Notification: 10 May 2026
- Camera-ready Submission: 31 May 2026
- Conference Date: 17-21 Aug 2026
Areas/Topics of Interest
Submissions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:
Privacy Computing
- Programming Languages and Compilers for Privacy Computing
- Metrics and Formalization of Privacy Computing
- Privacy Sensing
- Privacy Taxonomies and Ontologies
- Privacy Inference and Reasoning
- Privacy Operation and Primitives
- Data Analytics Oriented Privacy Control and Protection
- Privacy-Aware Information Collection
- Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing
- Deletion of Private Data
- Capability Assessment of Privacy Preserving
- Privacy for Social Networks, IoT, Web, Cloud, Location, Medical etc.
Data Security
- Confidential Computing
- Trust Computing
- Secure Multi-Party Computation
- Computation over Encrypted Data
- Cryptography based Privacy Protection
- Authentication
- Access Control
- Data Sharing Control
- Data Backup and Recovery
- Compliance Testing for Data Security
- Data Governance
- Data Rights
- Anonymous Communications and Censorship Resistance (e.g., Tor and VPN)
- Digital Forensics
- Data Usage Control
Organizers
- The Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xidian University
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications