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

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

Differential Privacy in Practice: Expose your Epsilons!

Oct 23, 2019

Privacy and Policy in Polystores: A Data Management Research Agenda

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.

Mind-Reading and Telepathy for Beginners and Intermediates: What People Think Machines Can Know About the Mind, and Why Their Beliefs Matter

Dec 15, 2018

What can machines know about the mind? This dissertation seeks to understand people’s beliefs about this question: how these beliefs affect and arise from interactions with digital sensors, from prior beliefs about the mind and the body; and how these beliefs may shape the design of technical systems in the future.

The purpose of this dissertation is twofold. First, it surfaces that the boundary between sensing bodies and sensing minds is unstable, deeply entangled with social context and beliefs about the body and mind. Second, it proposes the porousness of this boundary as a site for studying the role that biosensing devices will play in near future. As biosensors creep into smart watches, bands, and ingestibles, their ability to divine not just what these bodies do, but what they think and feel, presents an under-explored avenue for understanding and imagining how thesetechnologies will come to matter in the course of life.

Privacy news

Alumna Jennifer King’s Dissertation Honored by iSchools Organization

Jan 30, 2019

School of Information alumna Jennifer King was honored by the iSchools organization for her doctoral dissertation, “Privacy, Disclosure, and Social Exchange Theory.”

I School Team Reimagines “Privacy by Design,” and Wins Best Paper Award

Dec 6, 2018

Instead of looking for design solutions to fix existing problems in privacy, I School researchers used speculative design fictions to explore the potential privacy issues that may arise in future uses and adoptions of emerging biosensing technologies.

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Commentary: Facebook in the Spotlight: Dataism vs. Privacy

Apr 24, 2018

Chris Hoofnagle discusses the policing of Facebook’s privacy policies and FTC enforcement.

Commentary: Facebook is right — this isn’t a breach

Mar 22, 2018

Facebook is right to claim this incident was no breach — this is Facebook’s platform working exactly as designed.

Deirdre Mulligan moderates ethics and computing panel at Turing Award celebration

Jun 27, 2017

Congress Is About To Give Away Your Online Privacy, Says Chris Hoofnagle

Mar 22, 2017

Privacy Leadership Award Honors Deirdre Mulligan and Kenneth Bamberger

Apr 4, 2016

The award honors their research on the unwritten laws of privacy and the book Privacy on the Ground.

Why Surveillance Leads to Government Corruption

Jul 11, 2014

Once a pervasive surveillance infrastructure is in place, a government will always have an incentive to abuse that power, according to new research.

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.