Professor Shvartzshnaider presented the paper co-authored with Vasisht Duddu on "Privacy Bias in Language Models: A Contextual Integrity-based Auditing Metric" at the annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) in Calgary! Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are integrated into sociotechnical systems, it is crucial to examine the privacy biases they exhibit. We define privacy bias […]
Paper on "Governing Generative AI Use in Universities: A Comparative Study of Policies in the United States, Canada, and China" co-authored Chengyuan Liang and Prof Kean Birch was accepted and discussed in PLSC 2026.
"We compare how 101 top universities in North America and Greater China translate privacy and other legal-technical constraints into genAI governance rules on tool access, data use, and accountability."
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)
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 […]
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 […]
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), […]
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