Editors’ Introduction

Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies ; 2016 (3):1­3 Claudia Diaz and Apu Kapadia DOI 10.1515/popets-2016-0012 It is our great pleasure to introduce the third issue of the second volume of PoPETs, an open access journal that publishes articles accepted to the annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS). Articles submitted to this issue were reviewed by 77 members of the Editorial Board, all of whom are internationally recognized researchers in the field of computer security and privacy. Starting with PETS 2015, the PET Board, which oversees PETS, decided to follow a hybrid conferencejournal model following in the footsteps of PVLDB.1 A hybrid model brings journal-style reviewing to conferences to improve the quality of published articles as well as to provide more predictable, but rigorously peerreviewed, paths to acceptance for authors. PoPETs publishes four issues per year, accepting submissions every three months. Reviews are conducted similarly to conferences, including bidding, individual reviews, author rebuttals, discussion among reviewers, and consensus recommendation. Decisions are provided to authors two months after submission. Recognizing the need to increase the availability of the publication, PoPETs is now published under the open-access Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license. To avoid conflicts of interest, the editorial board membership was published before submissions were opened and authors were asked to identify members who should not review their article. In addition, editorial board members were asked to identify any conflicts of interest the authors did not list, and the editorial board chairs also checked for any missed conflicts. Editorial board members were welcome to submit articles, but the chairs were not. There were 62 submissions to this issue of PoPETs, most of which were assigned for review to four members of the editorial board (in a few cases, articles received three or more than four...