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January 30, 2023

CyLab and S3D host International Data Privacy Day event

On Friday, the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute and Software and Societal Systems Department hosted Carnegie Mellon's annual International Data Privacy Day event, bringing students, faculty, and staff together to discuss various aspects of online privacy.

Guests were provided lunch as they enjoyed student poster sessions and participated in interactive privacy clinics.

Privacy clinics:

  • Useful open-source browser extensions (Ally Nisenoff)
  • Creating strong passwords (Sriram Viswanathan, Geetika Gopi)
  • How to set up and maintain social media privacy settings (Ellie Young)
  • Privacy Illustrated (Katie Earles)
  • Information Security Office (Charles Edmond)
  • Private browsing (Eman Alashwali)
  • Public Wifi Safety Tips (Harish Balaji)

Student poster presentations:

  • A US-UK Evaluation of Consent Management Platform Cookie Consent Interfaces (Elijah Bouma-Sims, Megan Li, Yanzi Lin, Adia Sakura-Lemessy, Alexandra Nisenoff, Ellie Young, Eleanor Birrell, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Hana Habib)
  • Pruning Has A Disparate Impact on Model Accuracy (Cuong Tran, Ferdinando Fioretto, Jung-Eun Kim, Rakshit Naidu)
  • Analyzing the Effectiveness of Ad-tech Opt-out Tools (Sriram Viswanathan, Geetika Gopi, Andrew Berry, Pauline Mevs, Aadyaa Maddi)
  • A Privacy Infrastructure for Notice & Choice in the Internet of Things (Norman Sadeh, Yuanyuan Feng, Justin Donnell, Gaurav Misra)
  • Privacy Label Wiz: A Tool to Help iOS App Developers Create Accurate Privacy Labels (Jack Gardner, Yuanyuan Feng, Akshath Jain, Norman Sadeh)
  • Fighting the Fog: Evaluating the Clarity of Privacy Disclosures in the Age of CCPA (Rex Chen, Fei Fang, Thomas Norton, Aleecia M. McDonald, Norman Sadeh)
  • Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare, an Empirical Investigation (Eduardo Abraham Schnadower Mustri, Idris Adjerid, Alessandro Acquisti)
  • Privacy Perceptions and Regulation of Unmanned Aerial Systems (David Mberingabo, Emma Rogers, Luka Begiashvili and Kristina Reimer)