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Ubicomp presentation uploaded: Locality and Privacy in People-Nearby Applications

Our Ubicomp presentation is now online! As a quick reminder, it presents our paper on privacy and locality in applications for people-matching, qualitatively analyzing how users manage their…

The Internet’s Infrastructure is Broken

A week full of loaded privacy news. The New York Times, The Guardian and ProPublica, had revealed information about how the N.S.A. is using well-placed backdoors to crack…

Two Papers to be presented at Ubicomp’13, Zurich

Ubicomp 2013 will be held in Zurich, Switzerland, next week, at September 8-12, 2013, in Zurich, Switzerland. Our group will present two papers at the conference: Eran will present the…

Shana Tova! (i.e., Happy New Jewish Year)

Its a great opportunity to wish you all a happy new Jewish year! With some great new beginnings, but do not forget to remember some old footsteps too….

Discontent and disconnect

Lately, there is a steady stream of videos, art works and applications that somehow express discontent from the constant connectivity imposed we currently enjoy. From pictures depicting the…

Creepy Technology Roundup

Lots of shiny new creepy technologies lately. Here is a short roundup: – How easy it is to build a creepy spying gizmo based on Raspberry Pi? According to…

Visualizing Cellphone Antennas and Celebrities!

Interesting visualization of cellphone antennas in Manhattan. High-End Stores Use Facial Recognition Tools To Spot VIPs. NPR covers a new technology that uses facial recognition to recognize celebrities in offline shopping.