Events

Privacy & Security

  1. Events
  2. Privacy & Security

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Filters

Changing any of the form inputs will cause the list of events to refresh with the filtered results.

Today

Photo of Gunes Acar

CITP Luncheon Speaker Series: Günes Acar – How Unique is Your .onion? An Analysis of the Fingerprintability of Tor Onion Services

Sherrerd Hall, 3rd floor open space Princeton, NJ, United States

Recent studies have shown that Tor onion (hidden) service websites are particularly vulnerable to website fingerprinting attacks due to their limited number and sensitive nature. In this work we present a multi-level feature analysis of onion site fingerprintability, considering three state-of-the-art website fingerprinting methods and 482 Tor onion services, making this the largest analysis of this kind completed on onion services to date.

Special Event: Dissecting the Equifax Breach

Sherrerd Hall, 3rd Floor Open Space

On September 7, 2017, Equifax announced that it was a victim of a major data breach potentially impacting about 145.5 million U.S. consumers. CITP, in collaboration with Fordham University’s Center on Law and Information Policy, presents a panel discussion and analysis of the Equifax breach from a technological, financial, legal and regulatory perspective. Experts from […]

POSTPONED – CITP Conference: Big Tech: New Policy Environment

Sherrerd Hall Sherrerd Hall, Princeton, NJ, United States

The reach of today's technologies, and their impact on public life, have intensified debates about the role of technology companies. Companies increasingly find themselves in positions where they have to make judgements that impact large populations. Some commentators argue in favor of more regulatory oversight, while others suggest a more precautionary approach to protect innovation and economic progress. This one day interdisciplinary conference features a range of discussions in the area of competition and open Internet, consumer privacy, online abuse and harassment and the current discussions around technology companies and political campaigns.

CITP Luncheon Speaker Series: Ed Freeland – Data Sharing and Data Privacy in the Social Sciences: The Paradox of Emergent Priorities

Sherrerd Hall, 3rd floor open space Princeton, NJ, United States

Over the past few years, calls for greater transparency and accountability in the natural and social sciences have intensified. This push has been driven in part by controversies over the inability to replicate the findings of well-known studies and by the failure to share or publish the outcomes of experiments that do not turn out as expected. This movement coincides with a vast increase in the volume and accessibility of data on individuals and the growing power of big data analytics. These trends raise significant concerns about how to continue protecting the privacy of people who participate in social science research. The talk focuses on how to reconcile the drive for greater transparency and more data sharing with the need to preserve the confidentiality of data that are supposed to remain private.

CITP Luncheon Speaker Series: Thomas Ristenpart – Tech Privacy and Safety in Intimate Partner Violence

Sherrerd Hall, 3rd floor open space Princeton, NJ, United States

Digital technologies, including mobile devices, cloud computing services, and social networks, play a nuanced role in intimate partner violence (IPV) settings, including domestic abuse, stalking, and surveillance of victims by abusive partners. This talk will survey recent and ongoing work in understanding technology’s role in IPV and improving technologies to increase privacy and safety for victims.

Oana Goga – Investigating Ad Transparency Mechanisms in Social Media: A Case Study of Facebook’s Explanations

Sherrerd Hall, 3rd floor open space Princeton, NJ, United States

In this paper, we investigate the level of transparency provided by these two mechanisms. We first define a number of key properties of explanations and then evaluate empirically whether Facebook’s explanations satisfy them. For our experiments, we develop a browser extension that collects the ads users receive every time they browse Facebook, their respective explanations, and the attributes listed on the Ad Preferences Page; we then use controlled experiments where we create our own ad campaigns and target the users that installed our extension. Our results show that ad explanations are often incomplete and sometimes misleading while data explanations are often incomplete and vague. Taken together, our findings have significant implications for users, policy makers, and regulators as social media advertising services mature.