Sebastian participates in the Dagstuhl Seminar 25042 on Online Privacy: Transparency, Advertising, and Dark Patterns. (Image credit David Monniaux, cropped, and licensed per CC BY-SA 1.0.)
Online guest lecture on privacy preference signals and GPC in Sepideh Ghanavati's COS 435/535 - Information Privacy Engineering class at the University of Maine.
We wrote a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom in support of Assembly Bill 3048 for opt out settings in browsers and mobile operating systems. Sad :(
Welcome, Ebuka!
Ebuka Akubilo joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Talk at the Future of Privacy Forum's Ad Practices Working Group call on Generalizable Active Privacy Choice.
Welcome, Anan!
Anan Afrida joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Welcome, Patton!
Patton Yin joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Francisca presenting our work on detecting Websites' GPC compliance at the Wesleyan University Summer Science Symposium.
Tamara Chuang of The Colorado Sun covers our work as GPC is becoming effective in Colorado on July 1, 2024. (Picture courtesy Eric Lubbers, The Colorado Sun.)
Talk at Comcast's Monthly Cybersecurity and Privacy Presentation Series on best practices for implementing GPC.
Our paper on GPC for Android was accepted at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference Europe in Amsterdam in October.
Celebrating the end of the academic year with Daniel Goldelman, Judeley Jean-Charles, and the whole team!
Welcome, Kelleigh!
Kelleigh Entrekin joins the privacy-tech-lab.
From Sci-Fi to Reality: Demystifying AI. Presenting a Master Class at Wesleyan University's WesFest 2024.
Together with Consumer Reports we support CA A.B. 3048. This California bill requires browsers and devices to include opt-out preference signal settings.
We discussed user interfaces for GPC at the FTC PrivacyCon 2024 (video starts at 2:42:25; paper ).
Together with Jane Zsigmond, Justin Brookman, and Robin Berjon, Sebastian participates in a GPC panel hosted by the Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser. Paul Ohm moderated.
Welcome, Francisca!
Francisca Wijaya joins the privacy-tech-lab.
The Office of the Colorado Attorney General recognizes GPC as a valid opt out signal per the Colorado Privacy Act.
Feature in The Wesleyan Connection: Privacy Controls Important For Users, Study Says.
Welcome, Nate!
Nate Levinson joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Our Privacy Pioneer paper is accepted at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2024. Launching to Bristol in 3, 2, 1, ...
Welcome, Matt!
Matt May joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Talk at the Community Foundation of Middlesex County: AI 101: The Myths, the Legends, and the Everyday.
Welcome, Zachary!
Zachary Liu joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Welcome, Dominik!
Dominik Dadak joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Welcome, Aleks!
Aleks Jacewicz joins the privacy-tech-lab.
What's the deal with privacy policies? We contributed to a piece in The Markup. While there should be One Page on Every Website That Tells You the Truth, that is often not the case.
Designing a user interface for Global Privacy Control (GPC).Our paper is accepted at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2024. See you in Bristol!
94% of people would opt out of web tracking using GPC. We said it at PETS in Lausanne.
Farewell Kate (Wesleyan BA/MA), Logan (Squarespace), Eliza (Alarm.com), and Daniel (Wesleyan BA/MA)! At Exley Science Center from left to right: Jocelyn, Inesh, Bella, Sophie, Nishant, Oliver, Kate, Sebastian, Eliza, Candace, Wesley, Harry, Daniel, Joe, Logan
We are weighting in: What happens when ChatGPT enters the medical field? CT experts explain
TikTok goes to Washington! Sebastian discusses online privacy at Where We Live of WNPR Connecticut Public Radio.
We hosted this year's Shasha Seminar at Wesleyan and discussed A Roadmap for Internet Privacy! The Wesleyan Connection covered it.
Over the next few months Sebastian will help the Office of the Connecticut Attorney General to enforce the Connecticut Data Privacy Act.
Welcome, Candace!
Candace Walker joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Welcome, Nishant!
Nishant Aggarwal joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Welcome, Wesley!
Wesley Tan joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Welcome, Harry!
Harry Yu joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Our paper Usability and Enforceability of Global Privacy Control will appear at PETS 2023!
At Boston University's Privacy Enhancing Technologies for the Public Interest workshop. Presenting how we work in the privacy-tech-lab.
Play it again! Sebastian participates in an NSF panel reviewing funding proposals at the Computer Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate.
Google talk! The whole Privacy Pioneer team --- Daniel, Logan, Justin, Judeley, and Sebastian --- is presenting at Google.
Our new OptMeowt promo video! OptMeowt is developed by Oliver, Jocelyn, Sophie, Kate, Kuba, and Sebastian. (Video created and narrated by Sophie.)
New GPC implementation guide: How to Implement Global Privacy Control (GPC) for Publishers.
Together with Justin Brookman and Alex Cash, Sebastian participates in a OneTrust webinar on Global Privacy Control: CCPA Enforcement of GPC Opt-Out Signals.
Welcome, Kate!
Kate Hausladen joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Sebastian provides comments on the proposed regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 to the California Privacy Protection Agency.
New NSF award! We will collaborate with Erika Franklin-Fowler, Michael M. Franz, and Travis N. Ridout of the Wesleyan Media Lab to investigate ad election transparency.
Bella presents the latest on opting out from web tracking at Wesleyan's Summer Research Poster Session.
Welcome, Judeley!
Judeley Jean-Charles joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Sebastian provides pre-rulemaking considerations for the Colorado Privacy Act to the Office of the Colorado Attorney General.
Welcome, Joe!
Joe Champeau joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Welcome, Jocelyn!
Jocelyn Wang joins the privacy-tech-lab.
In Arlington, Virginia at the NSF's 2022 Security and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Principal Investigators' Meeting.
Farewell Chunyue, Kuba, and Owen! All the best at Microsoft, Princeton, and Amazon! At Exley Science Center from left to right: Chunyue, Kuba, Owen, Sebastian, Eliza, Bella, Daniel; not pictured: Logan, Oliver, Justin, Sophie
Together with Aram Zucker-Scharff of the Washington Post and other collaborators we present GPC at the stakeholder meeting of the California Privacy Protection Agency.
"For me, I am liking the new add-on OptMeowt."
Steve Gibson features OptMeowt on Security Now!
Thinking and debating. Sebastian participates in an NSF panel reviewing funding proposals at the Computer Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate.
Kuba and Owen deliver their honors theses: "Don't Sell Our Data" and "Privacy Pioneer." Nice work!
I'm Feeling Lucky! We are grateful for receiving funding from
Google for our work on
Privacy Pioneer! Right on!
Sebastian weighs in on Emerging State Privacy Laws: Are They Working for Consumers and Businesses?
Welcome, Justin!
Justin Casler joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Welcome, Sophie!
Sophie Eng joins the privacy-tech-lab.
New DRP blog post: "The Data Rights Protocol: Threading Privacy Rights into the Internet".
As many people ask, Sebastian explains the similiarities and differences of the Data Rights Protocol (DRP) and Global Privacy Control (GPC).
Sebastian presented GPC at the Connecticut Senate Data Privacy Working Group Meeting (via Zoom from Germany :) ).
Sebastian provides comments on the proposed rulemaking under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 (Proceeding No. 01-21) to the California Privacy Protection Agency.
Sebastian participated in the Data Rights Protocol roundtable of Consumer Reports and hosted by the MIT Media Lab.
We farewell Stanley. Thank you for all your contributions to GPC. Excellent work!
Welcome, Oliver!
Oliver Wang joins the privacy-tech-lab.
New blog post: Opting Out May Not Prevent Websites From Collecting Your Data. (Image credit Social Ninja.)
We are thrilled to receive funding from the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
to develop a generalizable active privacy choice mechanism. In
other words, let's make it easier for Internet users to express
their privacy choices. More to come ... .
(Time magazine cover
in the public domain.)
Sebastian participates in an NSF panel reviewing funding proposals for the Computer Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate. Quite fun and lots of good ideas! (Image credit Internet Reputation Management.)
Raf and David are graduating! Thank you for your hard work all these years and making PrivacyFlash Pro the success it became! It was a pleasure. All the best for your future! We also farewell Daniel K. Thank you for all your contributions to GPC. Excellent work!
Welcome, Chunyue!
Chunyue Ma joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Welcome, Stanley!
Stanley Markman joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Kiryl Beliauski joins the privacy-tech-lab for the remainder of the semester.
A busy Friday with a talk at Sepideh Ghanavati's privacy group at the University of Maine and Wesleyan'sShasha Seminar: Truth (and Lies) in Our Time moderating Mitali Thakor's great talk on deep fakes.
Welcome, Logan!
Logan Brown joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Welcome, Daniel!
Daniel Goldelman joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Welcome, Bella!
Bella Tassone joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Welcome, Eliza!
Eliza Kuller joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Together with collaborators Robin Berjon and Pete Snyder, Sebastian discussed Global Privacy Control at Rise of Privacy Tech.
Welcome, Owen!
Owen Kaplan joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Sebastian gives Zoom talks on Global Privacy Control at UC Davis and Northeastern University.
We launched Global Privacy Control (GPC). Yeah! Gilad Edelman provided most excellent coverage over at Wired. Others did, too!
October is Cybersecurity month! Sebastian is participating in an online discussion at SUNY Canton.
Check out our short WPES paper on Do Not Sell featuring our OptMeowt browser extension. Here is our talk at WPES.
Welcome, Abdallah!
Abdallah Salia joins the privacy-tech-lab for the Fall semester.
Welcome, Daniel!
Daniel Knopf joins the privacy-tech-lab.
iOS YouTuber extraordinaire Brian Advent features PrivacyFlash Pro! Check it out! (Brian's take and Q&A's are also available.)
New blog post on the privacy of contact tracing apps: The Privacy of COVID-19 Apps -- Reopening Alphaville.
We had a great discussion with the good folks at iOSoho - New York City's largest iOS Engineer Meetup.
Welcome, Kuba!
Kuba Alicki joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Phil Kaelbling joins the privacy-tech-lab for the Spring semester.
Fresh! PrivacyFlash Pro. Developed by David, Rafael, Sarah, and Sebastian. (Video narrated by Rafael.)
Sebastian discusses the California Consumer Privacy Act at Samba TV's Data Protection in the 2020's in San Francisco.
Sarah Jin joins the privacy-tech-lab for the Fall semester.
Welcome, David!
David Baraka joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Welcome, Rafael!
Rafael Goldstein joins the privacy-tech-lab.
Wesleyan, here we go!
Sebastian joins
Wesleyan. (Picture courtesy Wesleyan University.)
