New paper: Understanding Privacy in Virtual Reality Classrooms: A Contextual Integrity Perspective

New paper by Prof Shvartzshnaider and Karoline Brehm was published in the IEEE Security & Privacy magazine. Understanding Privacy in Virtual Reality Classrooms: A Contextual Integrity Perspective "One reason concerns can arise around virtual reality’s use in education is that while VR platforms allow both real and virtual environments to exist simultaneously, each environment may […]

🆕 Papers accepted to PLSC 2023

Two papers were accepted for discussion to the Privacy Law Conference The Contextual Integrity of “Privacy” in Ad Attribution: A Comparative Analysis of AdTech Platforms Lee McGuigan, Yan Shvartzshnaider, Ido Sivan-Sevilla and Patrick Parham Privacy Not Included: Analysis of Add-ons in Learning Management Systems Madelyn Sanfilippo, Noah Apthorpe, Karoline Brehm and Yan Shvartzshnaider, The full […]

🆕 Position Papers accepted to CHI'23 Workshop

Two position papers were accepted to the upcoming CHI'23 workshop on Designing Technology and Policy Simultaneously: Towards A Research Agenda and New Practice. Position paper: Contextual Integrity of A Virtual (Reality) Classroom by Karoline Brehm, Yan Shvartzshnaider, and David Goedicke Abstract: The multicontextual nature of immersive VR makes it difficult to ensure contextual integrity of VR-generated […]

New publication: "Stop the Spread: A Contextual Integrity Perspective on the Appropriateness of COVID-19 Vaccination Certificates"

New paper on a contextual integrity perspective of COVID-19 Vaccination Certificates with Shikun Zhang (CMU), Yuanyuan Feng (UVN), Helen Nissenbaum (DLI, Cornell Tech), Norman Sadeh (CMU) We present an empirical study exploring how privacy influences the acceptance of vaccination certificate (VC) deployments across different realistic usage scenarios. The study employed the privacy framework of Contextual […]

New publication: GKC-CI: A unifying framework for contextual norms and information governance

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

SOUP'21: Virtual Classrooms and Real Harms: Remote Learning at U.S. Universities

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 […]

🏆 The Lee Dirks Award for Best Full Research Paper at the iConference

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