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.

Interview at Kann about the privacy implications of 9/11

Eran was interviewed in the “Three Ones Who Know” science program at the Israel Public Broadcast Network — Kann. See the program from September 12th, 2021, minute 29:00. The audio (in Hebrew) can also be found here:   And here:

Happy new Hebrew Year!

I’m really lowering my expectations from the new Hebrew year. Let’s just have fun while we can and stay healthy, okay? Perhaps a bit of research.

Privacy Engineering for the new Data Collection by the Bank of Israel: An Interview at Calcalist

Eran was interviewed by Calcalist about the privacy challenges of the new system proposed by the Bank of Israel to gather consumer action data. Click here to read the article (in Hebrew).

Interview about Apple’s CSAM technology

Eran was interviewed by Omer Kabir from Calcalist about Apple’s new Child Safety technologies for identifying #CSAM and what they mean for privacy. I’m giving some examples of possible attacks that were not addressed by Apple’s protocol. (In Hebrew). Click

Congratulations to Maya Arditi for successfully defending her Master’s Thesis

We are very happy to announce that Maya Arditi, advised by Eran Toch and Irad Ben Gal, had successfully defended her Master’s thesis, “Privacy-Preserving Synthesis of Human Mobility Location Sequences”.  People’s location data is continuously tracked from a multitude of