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Friday’s roundup has lots of stories about privacy in Israel. But before diving into that, it might be a good time to read The-Awesomest-7-Year-Postdoc or: How I Learned…
Leaked Israeli citizen database can help people forge the new biometric database. An eye-opening report by channel 2 (Hebrew). Privacy is not abstract when the interaction is between…
Troubling report in Haaretz about the Woosh startup that sets up public fountains in Tel Aviv, asking users to identify. Apparently, their agreement with the municipality requires them to…
The three papers summary: Time on Facebook, People-Nearby Applications and Price in Location Sharing
Three new papers by my group were recently accepted to various conferences. In “Retrospective Privacy – Managing Longitudinal Privacy in Online Social Networks“, Oshrat Rave Ayalon looks at…
A new paper was just accepted to the 2nd ACM Workshop on Mobile Systems for Computational Social Science. The paper, written by Omer Barak, Gabriella Cohen, Alla Gazit…
Several days before the Israeli biometric ID pilot starts, a security evaluation document reveals major flaws in the way the smart IDs are created and managed. The document was created by the…
In the fascinating New Yorker article, “The Prism”, Jill Lepore chronicles the history of privacy through time, trying to solve some mysteries, such as why many organizations that promote…