For 20 years, the IFIP WG 11. 3 Working Conference on Data and Appli- tions Security (DBSEC) has been a major forum for presenting originalresearch results, practical experiences, and innovative ideas in data and applications - curity. Looking back, it is di?cult not to appreciatethe full extent of the change that has occurred in our ?eld. Once considered afterthoughts in systems and application design, data protection, privacy and trust have become the key problems of our day. This central role of security in the information society has however brought increased responsibilities to the...

It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer LNCS proceedings of the Second World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2009, organized by the Open - search Society, Ngo, http: //www.open-knowledge-society.org, and held in Samaria Hotel, in the beautiful city of Chania in Crete, Greece, September 16-18, 2009. The 2nd World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2009) was an inter- tional scientific event devoted to promoting dialogue on the main aspects of the knowledge society towards a better world for all. The multidimensional economic and social crisis of the last couple of years...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post proceedings of two international workshops, the 7th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2012, and the 5th International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security, SETOP 2012, held in Pisa, Italy, in September 2012. The volume contains 13 full papers selected out of 31 submissions and 3 keynote lectures from the DPM workshop and 10 papers selected among numerous submissions from the SETOP workshop. The contributions from DPM cover topics from location privacy, citizens' privacy, privacy, authentication with...