New semester, new seminar

New semester, new weekly seminar: Focus on Network Security at the School of Economics. Tackling questions of security, privacy and economics. The new semester had just started, and there is one exciting new venture: I (Eran) am co-organize with Prof. Neil

Travelling to Milan and Cambridge, MA

I will be travelling to Milan (February 8th-11th) and Cambridge, MA (February 13th-16th), to participate in two exciting kick-off meetings. The first for our PACS project and the second for the DARPA Purposeful Privacy project. In Cambridge, I will also give

Gal Bar-On successfully defended his M.A. project

Congratulations to Gal Bar-On for successfully defending his M.A. project: “How choice architectures affect mobile OS configuration”.

Urban Studies Journal blog post

Tali Hatuka and myself wrote a post at the Urban Studies Journal blog about smartphones and public spaces. Check it out.  

New paper accepted to publication: Being Visible in Public Space: The Normalization of Asymmetrical Visibility

A new paper, co-authored by Tali Hatuka and Eran Toch, was recently accepted to Urban Studies. The paper, titled “Being Visible in Public Space: The Normalization of Asymmetrical Visibility”. SAGE Journals had published the paper online at their website. The article

Is privacy a new thing?

In a Medium article, Greg Ferenstein talks about “The Birth And Death Of Privacy: 3,000 Years of History Told Through 46 Images“. The main idea in that article is that privacy is a new thing, only 150 years old, a product

Slides for “5 Myths of Privacy” Wize Pub Lecture are now available

A popular lecture given at the Dizzy Frishdon Pub as part of the Wize pubs lecture series. The lecture looks at 5 recurring myths regarding privacy, e.g. “people don’t care about privacy anymore”, and argues that these myths are limited