A Decade of SOUPS: An Analysis of Ingredients

The authors survey and describe the accepted submissions to the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) since its inception in 2005. We observe some noteworthy trends in both the accepted papers and in the authorship of those papers while keeping historical views of the trends in mind. We aim to identify emerging topics of interests in the usable privacy and security domain. Furthermore, this investigation would shed insights on the academic vs. practitioners’ view on privacy and security especially with the proliferation of digital communication tools in the last decade that have engaged the society in profound debates on the corrosion of privacy.