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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 […]

Paper presented at the 6th AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence

Prof Shvartzshnaider presented work at the 6th AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence that among the few papers selected for oral presentation at the workshop. LLM on the wall, who *now*, is the appropriate one of all?": Contextual Integrity Evaluation of LLMsYan Shvartzshnaider (York University), Vasisht Duddu (University of Waterloo)

The Conversation article: EdTech Privacy

Prof Shvartzshnaider co-authored an article on EdTech Privacy in TheConversation: "We need approaches that consider contextual norms and respect social values, since privacy is about respecting the integrity of a social context. The values in the educational context have evolved over generations to ensure information flows in appropriate ways. Embracing this perspective would help to […]

Blog post: Privacy Inserts

Post for the Balkinization Symposium on Ignacio Cofone, The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy Cambridge University Press (2023).

CPI Talk - Privacy through Contextual Integrity: From Theory to Applications

Prof Shvartzshnaider gave a talk at the Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, Waterloo University

The 6th Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity

The 6th Annual PrivaCI symposium took place in Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA on September 27-28, 2024. Prof  Shvartzshnaider co-chaired the event with SC&I Chair and Associate Professor of Library and Information Science Rebecca Reynolds; SC&I Visiting Professor Louise Barkhuus; Ruobin Gong, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Rutgers University. The symposium brought together over 70 international scholars to […]

Talk at CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy

Professor Shavrtazshnaider visited the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) group in the University of Waterloo and presented a talk on: PrivaCI — Privacy through Contextual Integrity

Rhythm Lab hosts the Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity

In late September 2023, The Rhythm Lab at York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering hosted the 5th annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity. The CI symposium brought together students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and practitioners from Europe, the United States and Canada to present and discuss early-stage and published work related to contextual integrity (CI), […]

SSHRC Grant: Privacy of Online Education Platforms

"Yan Shvartzshnaider, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering, is part of a collaborative project that has received $291,971 in funding from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to analyze the functionality and information handling of online educational platforms to determine if […]

Toronto Public Tech Workshop

Prof Shvartzshnaider presented on the privacy governance of learning management systems project at the inaugural Toronto Public Tech Workshop hosted by the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto "This workshop aims to address these challenges and offer new insights […]