On November 18 the World Wide Web Foundation launched its Tech Policy Design Lab that aims to promote a "safer, more empowering web for everyone." CITP Clinic Lead Mihir Kshirsagar was among the panel of experts discussing how online dark patterns are harmful and how...
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 political philosopher at...
"Private computing with MPC" is a two-part Princeton University Wintersession workshop on January 11 and 13, 2022 from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. taught by CITP Fellow Sarah Scheffler. MPC is a cryptographic technique that enables multiple parties to compute some shared output...
How can independent researchers reliably detect bias, discrimination, and other systematic errors in software-based decision-making systems? Former CITP Fellow J. Nathan Matias, affiliated graduate student Austin Hounsel, and former CITP Deputy Director Nick Feamster...
This is a two-part Princeton University Wintersession workshop January 11 and 13, 2022 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in which Anchuri will discuss Bitcoin's history and how it works. Anchuri will also feature in these workshops the rise of Ethereum, a programmable blockchain,...
CITP Tech Policy Clinic’s comments were cited over a dozen times in the FTC's amended Safeguards Rule that establishes guidelines for security measures that protect sensitive consumer information stored by financial institutions. The FTC's final rule incorporated...
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 focused on in the...
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...
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...