New Demo at CHI

Our demo: “Meerkat: A Social Community Support Application for Older Adults” was accepted to ACM CHI 2022. The Android app, headed by Tamir Mendel, helps older adults receive support from family, friends, and a community of volunteers, when encountering challenging

Talk at Imperial College

Eran will be speaking at the Dyson Joint Seminar at Imperial College about #COVID19 contact tracing apps and how governments can harm citizens’ engagement when employing mass surveillance.

Data Privacy Day Event: Ethical Product Design

In (almost) Data Privacy Day, 2022, the lab was featured in an event organized by the IAPP – International Association of Privacy Professionals and Privacy Israel. The event was headlined by a lecture by Eran Toch about privacy and ethical engineering and then Eilat Lev

Media coverage regarding the NSO’a Pegasus

Eran was interviewed by several media outlets regarding the new discoveries about NSO’s Pegasus tool: Interviewed by Gidi Gov in 102FM.         Interview in Calcalist.

New paper accepted to IMWUT

New paper accepted to ACM #IMWUT / @ubicomp: Toward Proactive Support for Older Adults — Predicting the Right Moment for Providing Mobile Safety Help. The work is led by the lab’s student Tamir Mendel, with Roei Schuster, Eran Tromer, and Eran

New funded project — Less is More: Addressing Mobile Application Security and Privacy through Debloating

We are delighted to announce that we received funding for our project “Less is More: Addressing Mobile Application Security and Privacy through Debloating” from Singapore’s National Cybersecurity R&D Programme (NCR) and the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center (ICRC) in Israel.

Interview in Calcalist about the new Israeli “Facebook Law”

Eran was interviewed in Calcalist daily economic newspaper about the new authorization of a new law in the Israeli government ministerial committee that allows law enforcement agencies to require Internet content providers to remove content (AKA “The Facebook law”). The full