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Conference on Data and </span></p>

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and Privacy (DBSec 2021)</span></p>

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-- <b>July 19-20, 2021</b></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">We are pleased to invite
you to the 35th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications
Security and Privacy (DBSec 2021), which will be held on <b>19 – 20 July 2021</b>
<b>online</b>.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">DBSec is an annual international conference covering research in
data and applications security and privacy. The 35th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference
will bring together academia, industry, and government presenting novel</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">research
on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection,</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">privacy,
and applications security. </span></p>

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free of charge </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">(for both <b>regular
participants</b> and the <b>authors</b> of the accepted papers) and we very
much hope that you are interested to participate. For registration to the conference, please fill in and <b>submit the online form </b>(<a href="https://wpsites.ucalgary.ca/dbsec2021/registration/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://wpsites.ucalgary.ca/dbsec2021/registration/</a>)
before the respective deadlines.</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Author registration:
July 5th, 2021</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Regular registration:
July 12th, 2021</span></p>

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confirmation within a few hours of your registration. We very much look forward
to seeing you! </span></p>

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Publicity Chair</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Additional information
about the conference can be found at <a href="https://dbsec2021.ucalgary.ca/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://dbsec2021.ucalgary.ca</a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font color="#000000">Khosro Salmani, Ph.D.,</font></b></div><div><font color="#000000">Assistant Professor</font></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Department of Mathematics and Computing</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Mount Royal University</b></div></div><div><font color="#222222">B113F | 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW </font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Calgary, AB, Canada T3E 6K6</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(245,248,251)">T: </span><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">403-440-6492</font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div><a href="https://www.mtroyal.ca/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.mtroyal.ca/AboutMountRoyal/MarketingCommunications/_image/mru_logo.jpg" alt="Our Logo | MRU" width="96" height="63"></a><br></div></div></div></div>