Privacy

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Daniel Aranki

Assistant Professor of Practice

Predictive medicine; artificial intelligence; machine learning; tele-health; information disclosure; privacy; security.

John Chuang

Professor

Biosensory computing; climate informatics; information economics and policy

Chris Jay Hoofnagle

Professor of Practice

Internet law, information privacy, consumer protection, cybersecurity, computer crime, regulation of technology, edtech

Deirdre Mulligan

Professor

privacy, fairness, human rights, cybersecurity, technology and governance, values in design

Recent Publications

Differential Privacy for Black-Box Statistical Analyses

May 22, 2023

Situating Web Searching in Data Engineering: Admissions, Extensions, Repairs, and Ownership

Dec 16, 2022

Leveraging Differential Privacy While Attending to Social and Political Commitments

Dec 15, 2021

Enacting Privacy in Internet Standards

Dec 18, 2020

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Securing Your Data From Breaches Will Help Us Improve Healthcare

Aug 2, 2020

When you go to a new healthcare clinic in the United States, doctors and nurses pull up your patient record based on your name and birthdate. Sometimes it’s not your chart they pull up. This is not only a healthcare problem; it’s a data science problem.

Values by Design Imaginaries: Exploring Values Work in UX Practice

Jul 30, 2020

Privacy and Policy in Polystores: A Data Management Research Agenda

Oct 23, 2019

Differential Privacy in Practice: Expose your Epsilons!

Oct 23, 2019

Information-intensive innovation: the changing role of the private firm in the research ecosystem through the study of biosensed data

Aug 16, 2019

Bringing Design to the Privacy Table: Broadening “Design” in “Privacy by Design” Through the Lens of HCI

May 8, 2019

This paper reviews HCI research on privacy and design to discuss how utilizing a broader range of design methods from HCI can help support “privacy by design” efforts.

Privacy news

Experts Mine Questions of Big Data, Power, and Privacy

Apr 3, 2014

Capped by a keynote from Obama adviser John Podesta, a day-long workshop brought together the worlds of government, business, the law, and academia for what assistant professor Deirdre Mulligan called “a frank and honest conversation about our values,” and about how to balance those values with the omnipresent, often invisible collection of data about every aspect of our lives.

Government’s New Mobile Privacy Guidelines Incorporate Jen King’s Research

Feb 1, 2013

A report on mobile privacy released this morning by the Federal Trade Commission incorporates a number of recommendations from Ph.D. student Jennifer King. King is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the School of Information, where she studies online privacy and how people make their privacy decisions.

Deirdre Mulligan & Jen King Among the Year's Leading Privacy Researchers

Oct 24, 2012

King & Mulligan are included in the third annual “Privacy Papers for Policy Makers” publication, released by the Future of Privacy Forum.

Jen King Addresses FTC on Mobile Advertising & Privacy Disclosures

May 24, 2012

Ph.D. student Jen King presents to the Federal Trade Commission at a day-long workshop on advertising and privacy disclosures in online and mobile media May 30 in Washington, D.C.

Most Facebook Users are Very Uncomfortable With App Data-Sharing — But Use The Apps Anyway

Jul 15, 2011

Although most Facebook users claim to be very uncomfortable with how third-party apps use their personal information, their actual behavior doesn’t reflect this concern, a new study by School of Information researchers has discovered.