February 2023
CITP Distinguished Lecture Series: Jon Kleinberg – The Challenge of Understanding What Users Want: Inconsistent Preferences and Engagement Optimization
Online platforms have a wealth of data, run countless experiments and use industrial-scale algorithms to optimize user experience. Despite this, many users seem to regret the time they spend on these platforms. One possible explanation is that incentives ...
CITP Distinguished Lecture Series: Thomas Ristenpart – Mitigating Technology Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence and Encrypted Messaging
Computer security is traditionally about the protection of technology, whereas trust and safety efforts focus on preventing technology abuse from harming people. In this talk, we'll explore the interplay between security and tech abuse, and make the case ...
March 2023
CITP Distinguished Lecture Series: Alessandro Acquisti – Who Benefits from the Data Economy?
In the public debate around privacy and the data economy, several claims have been made concerning the benefits that multiple stakeholders may accrue from the collection and analysis of consumer data. How many of those claims are empirically validated by ...
CITP Distinguished Lecture Series: Ed Felten – Scaling Arbitrum, from Lab to Product
The Arbitrum blockchain protocol started as a Princeton University research project, and has grown into a robust community hosting hundred of applications and over 600,000 monthly users. Along the way, the system has evolved through at least three generations ...
CITP Distinguished Lecture Series: Lorrie Cranor – Designing Usable and Useful Privacy Choice Interfaces
Users who wish to exercise privacy rights or make privacy choices must often rely on website or app user interfaces. However, too often, these user interfaces suffer from usability deficiencies ranging from being difficult to find, hard to understand, or ...