Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security — 2026
August 23-26, 2026
Leibniz University HannoverHannover, Germany
Cybersecurity Privacy HCI
Important Dates
| Submission deadline | February 19, 2026 (closed) |
| Notification of acceptance | May 19, 2026 (passed) |
SOUPS is the leading venue for usable privacy and security: research on how people actually interact with security and privacy systems, and why those systems so often fail at the human end rather than the technical one. Typical work covers authentication and passwords, phishing, permissions and consent interfaces, privacy behaviour, and security for at-risk groups. It suits researchers running studies with human participants on security questions. SOUPS has been co-located with USENIX Security for years, so one trip covers both. Ranked A by CORE, with an acceptance rate of 19.1% in 2025.
Venue
Leibniz University Hannover
Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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