NYC published its first AI Strategy that discusses the responsible use of AI to protect the digital rights of all New Yorkers. The Mayor's strategy team participated in a CITP clinic case study session at an early stage that gave input on the issues the paper focused...
The Center for Information Technology Policy fellows' program offers scholars and practitioners from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to join the Center’s community. The goals of this fully-funded, in-residence program are to support people doing important research...
On October 6, 2021, Ed Felten, former CITP director and Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, Emeritus, spoke to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for enhanced data security. He recommended that the the...
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 one features Barton Gellman '82, a former visiting fellow at CITP and winner of multiple...
On September 30, 2021, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to protect consumers from SIM swap and number portability attacks. Acting Chair Rosenworcel specifically cited CITP research as a justification: By all...
Update October 1, 2021: September’s Princeton Alumni Weekly promotes CITP researchers' Rally collaboration in an article entitled “Mozilla and Princeton Center Ask Internet Users to Donate Their Data.” Professor Jonathan Mayer and graduate students Ben Kaiser and Anne...
Congratulations to Matthew Salganik who won the 2021 William F. Ogburn Mid-Career Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology.
Professor Jonathan Mayer and graduate student Anunay Kulshrestha recently wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post entitled, "We built a system like Apple's to flag child sexual abuse material -- and concluded the tech was dangerous. Mayer and Kulshrestha share...
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 a simple software upgrade that any carrier can adopt -- no tectonic...
Congratulations to Professor Arvind Narayanan, who for the second semester in a row, was recognized as part of the Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science's (SEAS) Commendation for Outstanding Teaching for spring 2021. Professor Narayanan's computer...
The Knight Foundations' recent article "Using data to make decisions for more equitable city services," discusses how students from CITP's Public Interest Technology Summer Fellowship program are helping to provide data insights for the San Jose City Council, "so that...
Congratulations to Eli Lucherini who was recently awarded the the Hamid Biglari *87 Behavioral Science Fellowship for 2021-22 by the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy and Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs. Eli...