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 […]
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
Post on "Privacy Policies as Contextual Integrity: Beyond Rules Compliance" co-authored with  Madelyn Sanfilippo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Noah Apthorpe (Colgate University) https://www.dli.tech.cornell.edu/post/privacy-policies-as-contextual-integrity-beyond-rules-compliance
Recent paper co-authored with Sohyeon Hwang, Priyanka Nanayakkara was conditionally accepted to the upcoming 28th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing "Decentralized social media protocols enable users in independent, user-hosted servers (i.e., instances) to interact with each other while they self-govern. This community-based model of social media governance opens up new opportunities for […]
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)
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 […]
Post for the Balkinization Symposium on Ignacio Cofone, The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy Cambridge University Press (2023).
Prof Shvartzshnaider gave a talk at the Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, Waterloo University
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 […]
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 […]