Bin Liu, is awarded a Yahoo! InMind fellowship
January 2015: My PhD student, Bin Liu, is awarded a Yahoo! InMind fellowship for work to develop a personalized privacy assistant for the InMind Project
Mobile App Privacy Nudging accepted at CHI2015
December 2014: Our paper on on Mobile App Privacy Nudging has been accepted for publication at CHI2015 – H. Almuhimedi, F. Schaub, N. Sadeh, I. Adjerid, A. Acquisti, J. Gluck, L. Cranor and Y. Agrawal, Your Location has been Shared 5,398 Times! A Field Study on Mobile App Privacy Nudging
An app developed at Microsoft by my PhD student, Justin Cranshaw
November 2014: An app developed over the summer at Microsoft by my PhD student, Justin Cranshaw, is featured on CMU’s homepage. The Microsoft Garage “Journeys & Notes” app connects people with similar commutes. Congrats Justin!
SOUPS 2014
October 2014: Our Ubicomp2012 and SOUPS 2014 work on modeling user privacy preferences is the basis for a cool new website grading mobile apps based on their privacy practices:
-J. Lin, B. Liu, N. Sadeh, and J.I. Hong, Modeling Users’ Mobile App Privacy Preferences: Restoring Usability in a Sea of Permission Settings , 2014 – SOUPS 2014
-J. Lin, S. Amini, J. Hong, N. Sadeh, J. Lindqvist, J. Zhang, Expectation and Purpose: Understanding Users’ Mental Models of Mobile App Privacy through Crowdsourcing – Ubicomp2012
Gartner Group positions Wombat Security Technologies as “Leader” in its magic quadrant for cybersecurity training
October 2014
Fei Liu presents
August 2014:
F. Liu, R. Ramanath, N. Sadeh, and N.A. Smith, A Step Towards Usable Privacy Policy: Automatic Alignment of Privacy Statements in Proc. of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Dublin, August 2014.
New course: Exploring applications of IBM Watson’s cognitive technology
August 2014: Partnering with Eric Nyberg and Alan Black to offer a new mobile app development course exploring applications of IBM Watson’s cognitive technology. (See also CMU Students Get to Work, Play with Computer Jeopardy! Champion Watson in Pittsburgh Tribune or IBM’s Watson is Going to College in Venture Beat)
Graduating first cohort of students in our Master’s Program in Privacy Engineering
July 2014
Soups 2014
July 2014:
- Co-organizing SOUPS 2014 workshop on Privacy Personas and Segmentation
- Jialiu Lin presents: J. Lin, B. Liu, N. Sadeh, and J.I. Hong, Modeling Users’ Mobile App Privacy Preferences: Restoring Usability in a Sea of Permission Settings , 2014 ACM Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (SOUPS 2014), July 2014.
One of our two posters also wins the best poster award
Wombat Security Technologies closes $6.7M series B round of funding to accelerate growth
July 2014
Future of Privacy Notice and Choice at CMU
June 2014: Co-organizing workshop on the Future of Privacy Notice and Choice at CMU
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
June 2014: Rohan Ramanath presents Unsupervised Alignment of Privacy Policies Using Hidden Markov Models in Proc. of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’14), Baltimore, MD, June 2014
Expert address at Hong Kong University
May 2014: Mobile App Privacy: How Bad Is It & What Can We Do About It?
CHI2014 in Toronto
April 2014: two papers at CHI2014 in Toronto
- Cranshaw, K. Luther, P.G. Kelley, N. Sadeh, The Curated City: Capturing Individual City Guides Through Social Curation , In Proceedings of the 32nd annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI2014. April 2014
- Y. Wang, P.G. Leon, A. Acquisti, L.F. Cranor, A. Forget, and N. Sadeh, A Field Trial of Privacy Nudges for Facebook , In Proceedings of the 32nd annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI2014. April 2014
Justin Cranshaw Disseration Proposal
April 2014: Justin Cranshaw successfully presents his dissertation proposal
Reconciling Mobile App Privacy and Usability on Smartphones: Could User Privacy Profiles Help?
April 2014: WWW2014: Bin Liu presents our paper on Reconciling Mobile App Privacy and Usability on Smartphones: Could User Privacy Profiles Help?
Mobile & Pervasive Computing Services Project Fair
February 2014: Mobile & Pervasive Computing Services Project Fair: 16 projects from my Mobile & Pervasive Computing Services course compete for top prize.
WEF's Top 10 Emerging Technologies List Cites CMU Research
February 2014: Our Livehoods project listed among top 10 emerging technologies at Davos World Economic Forum
Data Privacy Day
Jan 2014: Co-hosting White House Chief Privacy Officer, Nicole Wong, at CMU as part of Data Privacy Day – see also event webpage and an article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, a video of the keynote , and some photos
Reconciling Mobile App Privacy and Usability on Smartphones: Could User Privacy Profiles Help?
December 2013: Our WWW2014 article on Reconciling Mobile App Privacy and Usability on Smartphones: Could User Privacy Profiles Help? is now available as a Tech Report (CMU-CS-13-128/CMU-ISR-13-114)
People at the FTC tell us that our mobile app privacy research influenced their decision to go after Brightest Flashlight.
December 2013: A settlement has now been reached – see the FTC consent order
CyLab seminar: Mobile App Security and Privacy: An Overview of Recent Research Results and their Implications
November 2013
Jialiu Lin defends her dissertation on “Understanding and Capturing People’s Mobile App Privacy Preferences”. Congrats Jialiu!
October 2013
Our new NSF Frontier project on Usable Privacy Policies is featured in IAPP’s Privacy Advisor
September 2013