October 2020
CITP Seminar: Serge Egelman – Taking Responsibility for Someone Else’s Code: Studying the Privacy Behaviors of Mobile Apps at Scale
Modern software development has embraced the concept of "code reuse," which is the practice of relying on third-party code to avoid "reinventing the wheel" (and rightly so).
CITP Seminar: Tal Zarsky – When Small Change Makes a Big Difference: Algorithmic Equity Among Similarly Situated Individuals
Al and Bob are very similar, with one specific exception. This exception might pertain to their age, annual salary, health, height, education or sports team preference. Whatever ...
CITP Seminar: John Wilander – A Modern, Privacy-Preserving Web
In 2017, Apple announced Safari’s new, on-by-default Intelligent Tracking Prevention feature. It started a revolution among major browser vendors and spawned new web standards initiatives in permissions, ad attribution
November 2020
CITP Seminar: Vanessa Teague – Some Election Integrity Problems are Surprisingly Easy to Solve and Others are Very Very Hard
This talk will compare two recent advances in the understanding of election integrity. The Scytl/SwissPost e-voting solution was intended to provide complete verifiability for Swiss government elections. The talk will show ...
CITP Seminar: Anita L. Allen – How Privacy Got Its Race
There is increasing interest in understanding the difference race makes for the enjoyment of privacy and the protection of privacy rights. This talk surveys issues and concerns at the ...