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

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.

Epsilon Voting: Mechanism Design for Parameter Selection in Differential Privacy

Oct 29, 2018

An Interface without A User: An Exploratory Design Study of Online Privacy Policies and Digital Legalese

Jun 12, 2018

Privacy, Disclosure, and Social Exchange Theory

May 11, 2018

Context, Causality, and Information Flow: Implications for Privacy Engineering, Security, and Data Economics

May 8, 2018

The creators of technical infrastructure are under social and legal pressure to comply with expectations that can be difficult to translate into computational and business logics. This dissertation bridges this gap through three projects that focus on privacy engineering, information security, and data economics, respectively. These projects culminate in a new formal method for evaluating the strategic and tactical value of data: data games. This method relies on a core theoretical contribution building on the work of Shannon, Dretske, Pearl, Koller, and Nissenbaum: a definition of situated information flow as causal flow in the context of other causal relations and strategic choices.

Eliciting Values Reflections by Engaging Privacy Futures Using Design Workbooks

Nov 30, 2017

Real-Fictional Entanglements: Using Science Fiction and Design Fiction to Interrogate Sensing Technologies

Jun 10, 2017

The new world of data: Four provocations on the Internet of Things

Feb 6, 2017

These Aren't the Autonomous Drones You're Looking for: Investigating Privacy Concerns Through Concept Videos

Dec 5, 2016

Privacy is an essentially contested concept: a multi-dimensional analytic for mapping privacy

Nov 14, 2016

Privacy news

Alum Nitin Kohli Wins iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award for Outstanding Differential Privacy Research

May 30, 2023

Postdoctoral scholar and I School alum Nitin Kohli has been awarded the iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation, “Leveraging Differential Privacy While Attending to Social and Political Commitments.”

After Oakland Was Hacked, Davis Hake and Sarah Powazek Give Tips on How To Stay Safe

Mar 7, 2023

Andrew Reddie on “Integrating the Art and Science of Wargaming”

Mar 16, 2023

Policymakers face an incredibly difficult challenge to craft policy in the face of increasingly complex national and international security challenges. In serving them, wargamers can and should do better.

Prof. Deirdre Mulligan smiles in front of a window in her office in Washington DC

UC Berkeley I School Professor Joins White House As Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Policy

Feb 27, 2023

Professor Deirdre K. Mulligan has been tapped to join the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer for Policy.