Our work examines security and privacy concerns that individuals face and provides recommendations to address these concerns.
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“We’re utterly ill-prepared to deal with something like this”: Teachers’ Perspectives on Student Generation of Synthetic Nonconsensual Explicit Imagery
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To reveal or conceal: Privacy and marginalization in avatars
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“Violation of my body:” Perceptions of AI-generated non-consensual (intimate) imagery
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Distinguishing Privacy Law: A Critique of Privacy as Social Taxonomy
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Tech Talk with Kashmir Hill: Your Face Belongs to Us
Kashmir Hill has been working on a book about facial recognition technology for the last three years. In doing so, she tracked down the early pioneers, found the people fighting against the worst impulses for the technology, and dove into the history of Clearview AI, the ground-breaking startup that first drew her into the topic by building a radical person-finding app that giants in the field, including Google and Facebook, had deemed taboo. Full of previously unreported information and scoops, it will leave readers with a greater understanding of how we got to this point and how to prepare for the future to come. Kashmir Hill is a tech reporter at The New York Times and the author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. She writes about the unexpected and sometimes ominous ways technology is changing our lives, particularly when it comes to our privacy. She joined The Times in 2019, after having worked at Gizmodo Media Group, Fusion, Forbes Magazine, and Above the Law. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The Washington Post. She has degrees from Duke University and New York University, where she studied journalism.
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Resilience Grammar
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Redressing Privacy Violations: A conversation with experts, hosted by the UW Tech Policy Lab in partnership with Microsoft
On December 10, 2020, the University of Washington Tech Policy Lab in partnership with Microsoft hosted public panel exploring the broad range of potential options available for providing redress when an individual’s privacy is violated. The panel looked at the range of options and look at likely incentives, costs, benefits, and consequences of different enforcement […]
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How Public Is My Private Life? Privacy in Online Dating
To understand how users reason about privacy risks they can potentially control through decision making, Lab members studied online dating user’s perceptions about and actions governing their privacy. Their study reveals tensions between privacy and competing user values and goals, and they demonstrate how these results can inform future designs. This paper was presented at the 26th International World-Wide Web Conference.
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Computer Security and Privacy for Refugees in the United States
Lab faculty and students are examining cultural assumptions built into security mechanisms. In this paper, published at IEEE Security and Privacy 2018, they interviewed refugees in the U.S. about computer security and privacy, finding that many computer security and privacy related practices include deeply embedded U.S. or Western cultural knowledge and norms. They provide and are currently exploring further recommendations based on their interviews for concrete technical directions to better serve the security and privacy of diverse populations in the U.S. and around the world.
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Exploring ADINT: Using Ad Targeting for Surveillance on a Budget
In this work, we explore the following question: can third-parties use the purchasing of ads to extract private information about individuals? We find that the answer is yes. We also conduct a broad survey of other ad networks and assess their risks to similar attacks. We then step back and explore the implications of our findings. Published at the 16th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2017).
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