July 2016: Our Personalized Privacy Assistant is featured on CMU’s home page and also in Tech Crunch, Science Daily, Quartz, TribLive, Campus Technology, etc.

June 2016: Kiplinger publishes an article on our Explore.UsablePrivacy.Org website

June 2016: Our article on Personalized Privacy Assistants for Mobile App Permissions, “Follow My Recommendations: A Personalized Assistant for Mobile App Permissions” received the IAPP SOUPS Privacy Award

June 2016: Expert address at Hong Kong University on Privacy in the Age of IoT: New Technologies to Help Users and Regulators

June 2016: Our Usable Privacy Policy Project’s newsletter is now available

May 2016: Three articles on our research have been accepted for presentation at the 12th USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2016)

• Follow My Recommendations: A Personalized Assistant for Mobile App Permissions
  Bin Liu, Mads Schaarup Andersen, Florian Schaub, Hazim Almuhimedi, Shikun (Aerin) Zhang, Norman Sadeh, Yuvraj Agarwal, and Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University

• How Short Is Too Short? Studying Privacy Notice Design for Wearables
  Joshua Gluck, Florian Schaub, Amy Friedman, Hana Habib, Norman Sadeh, Lorrie Faith Cranor, and Yuvraj Agarwal, Carnegie Mellon University
• Expecting the Unexpected: Understanding Mismatched Privacy Expectations Online
  Ashwini Rao, Florian Schaub, Norman Sadeh, and Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University; Ruogu Kang, Facebook

April 2016: Our WWW2016 article titled “Crowdsourcing Annotations of Websites’ Privacy Policies: Can It Really Work?“ was nominated for the best paper award

March 11, 2016: We have released a new website showcasing a corpus of 23,000 privacy policy annotations. The site features color-coded navigation functionality that enables users to interactively explore privacy practice statements for nearly 200 different websites. This is research conducted under our Usable Privacy Policy project. See CyLab press release and also articles in Consumerist and LifeHacker

January 28, 2016: Hosting Ed Felten, US Deputy Chief Technology Officer (White House), as part of 2016 Privacy Day event at CMU – more details available here.

January 14, 2016: Three papers on our research to be presented at the first FTC Privacy Conference – PrivacyCon – here’s also an IAPP summary of the event highlighting our presentations:

• To Deny, or Not to Deny: A Personalized Privacy Assistant for Mobile App Permissions
• Towards Usable Privacy Policies: Semi-Automatically Extracting Data Practices from Websites’ Privacy Policies
• Expecting the Unexpected: Understanding Mismatched Privacy Expectations Online

November 2015: Wombat Security Technologies ranked 104th fastest growing company in North America in Deloitte’s 2015 Technology Fast 500 – and the fastest growing company in Pennsylvania

November 2015: Notice and Choice for IoT: Why We Need Personalized Privacy Assistants UC Irvine, Informatics Seminar speaker. See also our project’s website

October 2015: Awarded a DARPA Brandeis grant to work on personalized privacy assistants for the Internet of Things and Big Data – work in collaboration with Alessandro Acquisti, Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Cranor and Anupam Datta at CMU and teams at UC Irvine and Honeywell.

October 2015: Wombat Security Technologies named a clear leader in 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Awareness Computer-Based Training Vendors

September 2015: National Science Foundation grant on personalized privacy assistants for smartphone apps with a particular focus on user behavior – work in collaboration with Yuvraj Agarwal and Lorrie Cranor.

September 2015: I’m the lucky recipient of a Summer 2015 Google Research Award for my work on learning people’s mobile app privacy preferences

July 2015: We have been selected to lead the development of novel privacy technologies for Google’s new Web of Things initiative – see CMU press release and a few other articles in the press (e.g., Pittsburgh Post Gazette , Campus Technology)

July 2015: Invited to present our privacy work at event organized by the Future of Privacy Forum

July 2015: Our research in privacy and our master’s program in privacy engineering are featured in The Link

July 2015: Invited to present our research findings to FTC Commissioner Julie Brill and her staff

July 2015: Giving closing keynote at 2nd annual workshop on Privacy Personas and Segmentation at SOUPS 2015

May 2015: Jose M. del Alamo and I are co-chair of the 2015 International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE’15) (collocated with the 36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy)

March 2015: Nice article in the Wall Street Journal on our mobile app privacy research. The full study will be presented at CHI’2015 next month. Here’s also the CMU press release. Around 50 news articles have been published in the past few days (including articles in the US, UK, Germany, France, India, Brazil, China, Vietnam, Netherlands and more). Here is the one in Wired and here’s a cool blog post in futurity that also talks about our work on personalized privacy assistants. See also project website here

January 28, 2015: FTC Commissioner Julie Brin will join us to celebrate Privacy Day at CMU – I will be participating in the panel on Privacy Research and Public Policy (here are also some photos and here’s a video the panel)

January 14, 2015: Sharing our experience at Wombat Security Technologies on “SBIR Success Panel“ at 2015 Government Cybersecurity SBIR Workshop in DC.