Israel’s COVID-19 Cellular Tracking: Interview at GLZ Radio

Eran was interviewed by Efi Trigger on GLZ morning news show about the return of the cellular tracking for COVID contact tracing. The recording can be found here:  

Python programming workshop for kids: based on the visual Turtle Package

In unrelated news, here is the material for a Python programming workshop that we run in our local high school. The workshop, in Hebrew, is based on the Turtle visual programming package, which uses a Logo-like graphic programming model.  The

Speaking at the Innovation for Democracy Online Conference

Eran will be speaking at the Innovation for Democracy conference. It will be held online at Tapiai on 24/25 November 2021.  The lab will be featured in the “don’t fear the Techie!” panel, where we will talk about the the  digital

An article at Globes: “Breaking up Facebook? Not Enough, We need To Break Up the Algorithm”

The daily financial newspaper Globes had published an opinion piece by Eran, titled: “Breaking up Facebook? Not Enough, We need To Break Up the Algorithm”. The article reflects on Frances Haugen’s exposure of the hard that Facebook’s algorithms create, and

New preprint: How mass surveillance can crowd out installations of COVID-19 contact tracing apps

What was the effect of Israel’s decision to use mass surveillance of cellular phones for COVID-19 contact tracing? Oshrat Ayalon and I have uploaded a new manuscript to arxiv that analyzes the relationship to the installation of the more accurate

A paper in MobileHCI

How older adults (people aged 65 or more) get help from family and friends when facing security and privacy challenges on their mobile phones?  Our ACM MobileHCI paper was just published and will be presented in the upcoming conference, by

New mention at NBC News

An NBC News article had quoted Eran’s comments about Apple’s CSAM system, the challenges to privacy, and why delaying its rollout is a good idea.  Here is the link to the article.