Welcome to the Privacy & Sociotechnical Systems Rhythm Lab!
We explore the intersection of technology, society, and ethics to design privacy solutions that are meaningful, usable, and trustworthy.
Our work combines technical tools, policy analysis, and social research to help systems respect people's expectations and values.
Research Interests (see selected publications)
- Usable privacy
- Sociotechnical systems
- Contextual Integrity: Theory and Applications
- Information Technology Policy
We are grateful for the support:
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Invited Talk at NYC Privacy Day
Professor Shvartzshnaider gave a talk on " In LLMs We Trust? A Contextual Integrity Perspective" at the recent NYC Privacy Day. "Hosted by DLI (Digital Life Initiative) and SETS (Security, Trust, and Safety Initiative), NYC Privacy Day 2025 is an informal setting to gather and connect researchers working on data privacy at different institutions in the greater New York City area. The schedule…
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[New paper] Position: Contextual Integrity is Inadequately Applied to Language Models
Professor Shvartzshnaider presented a new paper, co-authored with Vasisht Duddu, at the recent ICML 2025 conference titled: "Position: Contextual Integrity is Inadequately Applied to Language Models" "Machine learning community is discovering Contextual Integrity (CI) as a useful framework to assess the privacy implications of large language models (LLMs). This is an encouraging development. The CI…
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Talk at HotPETS 2025
Professor Shvartzshnaider presented at the recent HotPETS 2025 In LLMs We Trust? A Contextual Integrity PerspectiveYan Shvartzshnaider (York University), Vasisht Duddu (University of Waterloo) The talk broadly discuss recent results in LLM-CI: Assessing Contextual Integrity Norms in Language Models "Large language models (LLMs), while memorizing parts of their training data scraped from the Internet, may…
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[New paper] Measuring NIST Authentication Standards Compliance by Higher Education Institutions
Prof Shvartzshnaider co-authored a paper on "Measuring NIST Authentication Standards Compliance by Higher Education Institutions" with Noah Apthorpe and Boen Beavers, Colgate University and Brett Frischmann, Villanova University that will appear in the processing of the Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security "In this paper, we examine the authentication policies of a diverse set of 135…