Category: Privacy
CITP Graduate Student Anunay Kulshrestha Receives Wallace Memorial Fellowship
Congratulations to CITP Graduate Student Anunay Kulshrestha on receiving a Wallace Memorial...
Read MorePolitico Cybersecurity Newsletter Spotlights CITP Researchers’ Work on Surveillance
Privacy and security research spearheaded by CITP graduate student Anunay Kulshrestha led Politico’s March 27 “Weekly Cybersecurity” newsletter. The post, Did an Ivy League professor crack the key to 702...
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Quanta Magazine Features the Work of CITP Professor Arvind Narayanan in Exposing Bad AI
The Researcher Who Would Teach Machines to Be Fair, a story in Quanta Magazine, highlights the work of Professor Arvind Narayanan in exposing privacy violations by tech companies.
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CITP Launches the Digital Witness Lab to Help Journalists Track Bad Actors on Platforms
Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) is excited to announce the launch of the Digital Witness Lab — an innovative research laboratory where engineers will design software and hardware tools to
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Professor Prateek Mittal Brings a Record of Producing Research with Societal Impact to CITP as Interim Director
As the new interim director of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, Prateek Mittal — a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department — says he is encouraged
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Podcast Series “Cookies: Tech Security & Privacy” – Season Two
The School of Engineering and Applied Science’s (SEAS) second podcast season of the series “Cookies: Tech Security & Privacy” will feature several CITP affiliates. Episode seven features former CITP Fellow Annette Zimmerman, who is now a
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Mozilla Teams Up with Professor Jonathan Mayer and Other Princeton and Stanford Researchers to Take Control of Your Data with Rally
Recently published on Mozilla, the creator of the Firefox web browser, “Take control over your data with Rally, a novel privacy-first data sharing platform” explains how
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Former CITP Researcher Paul Schmitt has a Simple Software Fix to Limit Location Data Sharing
In a recent Wired article “A Simple Software Fix Could Limit Location Data Sharing,” former CITP researcher Paul Schmitt explains how it is possible to mask wireless users’ location from carriers with
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CITP Researchers Discover Recycled Phone Numbers Pose Privacy and Security Risks
Computer Science Associate Professor Arvind Narayanan and Computer Science Graduate Student Kevin Lee’s research on the risk of recycling old phone number is discussed in several recent tech site articles. Narayanan and Lee have shown
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Arvind Narayanan and Günes Acar interviewed by NBC Nightly News
Arvind Narayanan, associate professor of computer science and Günes Acar, a former postdoctoral researcher at CITP, were interviewed by NBC Nightly News for a segment called Privacy And Power: Your Digital Fingerprint. In the first installment,
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Arvind Narayanan announced Recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Congratulations to Arvind Narayanan, Associate Professor of Computer Science, for being named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). PECASE is “the highest honor bestowed by the
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DuckDuckGo Gift to Expand Technology Policy Research at CITP
DuckDuckGo gifts the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) $600,000 to support research and other scholarly activities in the center. In keeping with its interdisciplinary nature, CITP will continue to work on a wide range
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