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Obfuscation strategies represent creative ways to evade surveillance, protect privacy, improve security; as well as protest, contest, resist and sabotage technology. Obfuscation methods render data more ambiguous, difficult to exploit and interpret, less useful. They rely on the addition of gibberish, meaningless data; they pollute, add noise, randomize. Obfuscation invokes an intuitive form of protection: it distorts that which is visible to render it less (or in)visible. It hides the trees among the forest. The aim of the 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation is to foster interaction among diverse communities of research, concern and practice interested in obfuscation. We convene researchers, scientists, policy makers, developers, journalists, activists, artists and other interested parties to discuss obfuscation in environments and conditions of asymmetrical power and information. We look forward to presentations on a broad range of approaches, including theories, tools, simulations and experimental methods from diverse disciplines and spheres of practice. The different sessinos include a diverse family of related topics and efforts, including friction, adversarial machine learning, countering new modes of ad-tracking, protective optimisation technologies (POTs), cybernetics and obfuscation in behavioural decision-making contexts by humans and artificial agents.