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
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), […]
"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 […]
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 […]
Professor Shvartzshnaider joined a virtual privacy chat with Jules Polonetsky (FPF) and Professor Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech) to discuss the theory of privacy on contextual integrity as it relates to current tech and policy challenges.
A paper on GKC-CI unifying framework for contextual norms and information governance was published in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. GKC‐CI : A unifying framework for contextual norms and information governance by Shvartzshnaider, Y.; Sanfilippo, M. R.; and Apthorpe, A summary of the paper is available in Information Matters blog
Prof Shvartzshanider discussed privacy in virtual classrooms and his recent paper on "Virtual Classrooms and Real Harms: Remote Learning at U.S. Universities" Cohney Shaanan, Ross Teixeira, Anne Kohlbrenner, Arvind Narayanan, Mihir Kshirsagar, Yan Shvartzshnaider, and Madelyn Sanfilippo.The Seventeenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2021)
New paper on privacy and security risk of online educational platforms was accepted as part of the proceedings of The Seventeenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2021). Virtual Classrooms and Real Harms: Remote Learning at U.S. UniversitiesCohney Shaanan, Ross Teixeira, Anne Kohlbrenner, Arvind Narayanan, Mihir Kshirsagar, Yan Shvartzshnaider, and Madelyn Sanfilippo. Abstract: Universities […]
Prof. Shvartzshnaider took part in a panel discussion on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Privacy: the Role of Contextual Integrity in Supporting Diverse Inquiries and Contextual Practice "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Privacy: The Role of Contextual Integrity in Supporting Diverse Inquiries and Contextual Practice" brings together a panel of experts from Business (Kirsten Martin, University of Notre Dame), […]
A paper on "Data and Privacy in a Quasi-Public Space: Disney World as a Smart City" co-authored by Professor Sanfilippo and Professor Shvartzshnaider, was named the2021 winner of the Lee Dirks Award for Best Full Research Paper. In the news: YFile story