Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, WPES 2002, Washington, DC, USA, November 21, 2002

These proceedings contain the papers selected for presentation at the ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, held in association with the 9th ACM Computer and Communictaions Security Conference, November 21, 2002, in Washington, DC (USA).In response to the call for papers, 44 papers were submitted to the workshop. These papers were evaluated on the basis of their significance, novelty, and technical quality. Each paper was reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The program committee meeting was held electronically. Of the papers submitted, 12 were selected for presentation at the conference. One of the accepted paper was later withdrawn by the authors who could not participate in the workshop. The workshop program also included an invited talk by Caspar Bowden on "Policy Trends in Surveillance Law".