The Computers, Privacy and Data Protection book series publishes multidisciplinary peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts related to topics discussed at the international Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference, that takes place every year in Brussels. As a world-leading multidisciplinary conference, CPDP gathers, within an atmosphere of independence and mutual respect, academics, lawyers, practitioners, policy-makers, industry and civil society from all over the world, offering them an arena to exchange ideas and discuss the latest emerging issues and trends.
The book series, published by Hart Publishing, provides cutting edge research on legal, regulatory, academic and technological development in privacy and data protection. The books, which have been published since 2009 with growing success, are comprised of academic research dealing with topics such as recent developments in privacy and data protection law, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary insights in privacy and data protection, privacy by design, privacy enhancing technologies and emerging technologies - such as conversational agents, machine-learning algorithms, internet of things and AI. The book series discusses daring and prospective approaches, and serves as an insightful resource for readers with an interest in computers, privacy and data protection.
The working title of this new volume is 'Data Protection, Privacy and Artificial Intelligence: To govern or to be governed, that is the question'. Contributors are invited to submit an academic contribution to the book that will also publish the best papers that were presented in the Academic paper track.
Academic contributions to the book should have a minimum of 5,000 and a maximum of 12,000 words and must be submitted anonymously via Easychair here.
Authors who have already submitted to the CPDP Conference call for papers will have their papers automatically submitted for the book. All other authors can submit here.
Latest submission by: 26. July 2024.
Our ambition is to have the seventeenth book ready and available before the next CPDP conference – i.e., May 2025 – which means that the review process will take place in the months of August and September, and that we will look to finalise the manuscript before the second week of October.
All the proposed contributions will be submitted to a scientific peer review process coordinated by the editors of the volume. Editors will then feed comments back to the authors, who will then have the chance to offer their rebuttals. The reviewers will also be asked to check if authors have respected the Chicago Reference Style (see point 8 below) and the quality of English (see point 3 below).
Please let us know as soon as possible if you intend to submit a contribution. This will help us plan further work on the volume.
If you intend to submit a contribution as an author, there are a number of important issues we want to announce from the outset.
1. We do not accept contributions which have been wholly, substantially, or substantively generated by AI. If authors deploy generative AI in the course of their research or writing, they must follow the APA reference style requirements to ensure transparency and acountability, see https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt. This entails referring to the author, e.g., OpenAI, documenting the language model used, the prompts and the text that was generated (and, if available, as with ChatGPT, the hyperlink to the chat). This should be done in either the main text, a footnote or an appendix. In addition, they shall make a clear statement that generative AI was used upfront, prior to the introduction to the chapter.
2. The total amount of royalties generated by the book will be transferred to a Privacy Salon account and will be integrally used for the organization of the next CPDP conference.
3. Hart requires every author of a contribution to accept and sign the contributor form. Details about the procedure for submitting this form will be sent to the corresponding authors after review and acceptance of the papers.
4. Only chapters that adhere to academic standards will be accepted for the book.
5. Non-native English-speaking authors are requested to have their contributions reviewed and corrected by a native English speaker, prior to submission. In order to make the costly and time-intensive process of language checking easier, we would very much appreciate it if authors submit contributions written in the best possible English. The peer review process will also evaluate the quality of language used.
6. Contributions must be submitted in PDF format. Each contribution must use footnotes (not endnotes) numbered consecutively. Each contribution must also provide a Bibliography listing all the sources used by the authors. For chapter and section numbering, the decimal system should be used: i.e. for Chapter X each heading will be numbered X.1, X.2, X.3, etc., and the subheading X.1.1., X.1.2, X. 1.3, etc. and the sub-subheading X.1.1.1., X.1.1.2, X.1.1.3. etc.
7. Contributions need to be anonymized for blind peer review.
8. Authors must make use of the Chicago Manual of Style (https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html and https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html), and more precisely the humanities style (N for notes and B for bibliography) and not the author-date system.
9. We generally require that chapters have not been published or pre-published elsewhere before. However, if your contribution has been previously preprinted (e.g., in a working paper series), please indicate so in your submission.
Here are some examples:
Book One author
N: 1. Wendy Doniger, Splitting the Difference (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1999), 65.
B: Doniger, Wendy. Splitting the Difference. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Two authors
N: 6. Guy Cowlishaw and Robin Dunbar, Primate Conservation Biology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 104–7.
B: Cowlishaw, Guy, and Robin Dunbar. Primate Conservation Biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Four or more authors
N: 13. Edward O. Laumann et al., The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 262.
B: Laumann, Edward O., John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels. The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Chapter or other part of a book
N: 5. Andrew Wiese, “‘The House I Live In’: Race, Class, and African American Suburban Dreams in the Postwar United States,” in The New Suburban History, ed. Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 101–2.
B: Wiese, Andrew. “‘The House I Live In’: Race, Class, and African American Suburban Dreams in the Postwar United States.” In The New Suburban History, edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue, 99–119. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Journal article
N: 8. John Maynard Smith, “The Origin of Altruism,” Nature 393 (1998): 639.
B: Smith, John Maynard. “The Origin of Altruism.” Nature 393 (1998): 639–40.
We hope that these guidelines are clear and helpful, but don’t hesitate to contact the editors at info@cpdpconferences.org if you have still questions.
Warm regards,
The Programming Committee and the Scientific Committee
