Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009 Time: 12:00pm-1:30 pm Place: Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area
Speakers : Stuart Schechter (Microsoft) and Serge Egelman (CMU)
Title: Paying people to buy vibrators and lie to their spouse’s friends. Two short talks on the latest social science results in online security and privacy
Abstract: Many commerce websites post privacy policies to address Internet shoppers’ privacy concerns, but few users read or understand them.
Title: Participating in Privacy: Enabling Disclosure and Discretion in Mobile Sensing
Abstract: Mobile sensing harnesses mobile phone capabilities, such as location awareness, image capture, motion sensitivity, and user input, to create a platform for individual discovery and community exploration. Transforming mobile phones into ubiquitous systems for data capture and analysis poses...
Abstract: Nearly every data privacy regulation separates information into two categories: sensitive and non-sensitive. Often, the rules dole out special treatment for those who transform sensitive into non-sensitive information through anonymization—the elimination of personal identifiers like names and social security numbers. For example, to satisfy regulators, Google...
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Time: 12:00pm-1:30 pm Place: Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area
Speaker: Scott Dynes, Dartmouth
Title: Information Security and Critical Infrastructure Resiliency: Results From Field Studies
Abstract: It’s no surprise that some firms are better at managing information risk than other firms. What is a surprise is that firms that should do well don’t. This talk will present field studies of information risk management (IRM) efforts at a hospital, within and across...
Title: Shuffle-Sum: Coercion-Resistant Verifiable Tallying for STV Voting
Abstract: There are many advantages to voting schemes in which voters rank all candidates in order, rather than just choosing their favorite. However, these schemes inherently suffer from a coercion problem when there are many candidates, because a coercer can demand a certain permutation from a voter and then check...
Title: Of Frogs and Herds: Behavioral Economics, Malleable Privacy Valuations, and Context-dependent Willingness to Divulge Personal Information
Abstract: We investigate privacy valuations and decision making through the lenses of behavioral economics. Contrary to the assumption in much social science that people have stable, coherent preferences with respect to personal...
Abstract: Imagine someone taking a picture of you as you wave in greeting and as a result they have a copy of your fingerprints. The market trend is for image resolution (measured in megapixels) and capture speed of over-the-counter digital cameras to increase, thereby enabling the fast capture of prints without subjects making any physical...
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 Time: 12:00pm-1:30 pm Place: Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area
Speaker: Sara “Scout” Sinclair
Title: Access Control as Risk Management
Abstract: Access control aims to provide the correct permissions to users of a computer system: if Alma can access resources that are not necessary to her job, she may (either willfully or accidentally) cause harm. Similarly, if Ben is denied legitimate access to resources, the resultant slowdown can pose additional cost to his...
Title: From a Series of Tubes to the BarackBerry: Net Neutrality as an Illustration of Talking Technology in Washington
Abstract: Over the last several years, a number of policy issues have been debated under the heading of “net neutrality,” and these battles show no signs of slowing as the new President and Congress get settled in Washington. At the heart of the net neutrality question is...
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Time: 12:00pm-1:30 pm Place: Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area
Speaker: Carl Landwehr
Title: IARPA Information Assurance Research
Abstract: IARPA, just past its first birthday, sponsors high-risk/high-payoff research that has the potential to provide the U.S. with an overwhelming intelligence advantage over our future adversaries. This talk will introduce IARPA and survey recent information assurance research conducted under IARPA sponsorship that aims to raise...
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