Author Archives: erant

Receiving the Safra Ethics Center Grant to study Privacy in Genomic Databases

We are honored to receive the The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics grant, together with Prof. Noam Shomron from TAU’s Faculty of Medicine, to study “Privacy in Personalized Genomic Database”. The study, carried out by the group’s member Netta Rager, aims to develop methods for protecting people’s

/ Comments Off on Receiving the Safra Ethics Center Grant to study Privacy in Genomic Databases

Receiving the Safra Ethics Center Grant to study Privacy in Genomic Databases

We are honored to receive the The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics grant, together with Prof. Noam Shomron from TAU’s Faculty of Medicine, to study “Privacy in Personalized Genomic Database”. The study, carried out by the group’s member Netta Rager, aims to develop methods for protecting people’s

/ Comments Off on Receiving the Safra Ethics Center Grant to study Privacy in Genomic Databases

Congrats to Anat!

Proud of Anat Haim, who successfully defending her Master’s project, “Classifying privacy behavior patterns in online social networks”, advised by Hadas Schwartz-Hassidim and Eran Toch. The project used supervised and unsupervised non-linear classification methods to analyze how users manage their exposure to

/ Comments Off on Congrats to Anat!

Congrats to Anat!

Proud of Anat Haim, who successfully defending her Master’s project, “Classifying privacy behavior patterns in online social networks”, advised by Hadas Schwartz-Hassidim and Eran Toch. The project used supervised and unsupervised non-linear classification methods to analyze how users manage their exposure to

/ Comments Off on Congrats to Anat!

Winning a new European Union Horizon 2020 Project

We are happy to say that the group will participate in a new project, “Privacy.Us”, aiming to study methods for more intuitive privacy management. The project is part of an European Union Horizon 2020 ITN consortium, along with partners from

/ Comments Off on Winning a new European Union Horizon 2020 Project

Winning a new European Union Horizon 2020 Project

We are happy to say that the group will participate in a new project, “Privacy.Us”, aiming to study methods for more intuitive privacy management. The project is part of an European Union Horizon 2020 ITN consortium, along with partners from

/ Comments Off on Winning a new European Union Horizon 2020 Project

Commenting on the Israeli Biometric Database

Eran is commenting about the biometric database ombudsman report at Channel’s 10 news (Hebrew minute 4:30). Link: http://10tv.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=1133576

/ Comments Off on Commenting on the Israeli Biometric Database

Commenting on the Israeli Biometric Database

Eran is commenting about the biometric database ombudsman report at Channel’s 10 news (Hebrew minute 4:30). Link: http://10tv.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=1133576

/ Comments Off on Commenting on the Israeli Biometric Database

Lecture at the Cybersecurity Conference: Tuesday June 23rd, 2015, 14:00

Eran will give a lecture about the human factors of cybersecurity, tomorrow at June 23rd, at 14:00, as part of the 5th Annual Cybersecurity Conference. The lecture is part of the academic track, held at Jaglom Auditorium, Tel Aviv University.

/ Comments Off on Lecture at the Cybersecurity Conference: Tuesday June 23rd, 2015, 14:00

Lecture at the Cybersecurity Conference: Tuesday June 23rd, 2015, 14:00

Eran will give a lecture about the human factors of cybersecurity, tomorrow at June 23rd, at 14:00, as part of the 5th Annual Cybersecurity Conference. The lecture is part of the academic track, held at Jaglom Auditorium, Tel Aviv University.

/ Comments Off on Lecture at the Cybersecurity Conference: Tuesday June 23rd, 2015, 14:00

Got that code working. Now its time for a survey.

Reminder: our survey is still open for business! Oshrat is running a survey about developers’ perceptions and practices. We are looking for developers who have some experience in the process of developing systems that manage information about people. The survey will take approximately

/ Comments Off on Got that code working. Now its time for a survey.

Got that code working. Now its time for a survey.

Reminder: our survey is still open for business! Oshrat is running a survey about developers’ perceptions and practices. We are looking for developers who have some experience in the process of developing systems that manage information about people. The survey will take approximately

/ Comments Off on Got that code working. Now its time for a survey.

Lecture at the Foerder institute for economic research

Our smartphones serve as tracking devices, constantly reporting our geographical location to various servers. In a seminar at the Foerder Institute For Economic Research, in Tel Aviv University​ School of Economics, I will talk about the characteristics of location tracking,

/ Comments Off on Lecture at the Foerder institute for economic research

Lecture at the Foerder institute for economic research

Our smartphones serve as tracking devices, constantly reporting our geographical location to various servers. In a seminar at the Foerder Institute For Economic Research, in Tel Aviv University​ School of Economics, I will talk about the characteristics of location tracking,

/ Comments Off on Lecture at the Foerder institute for economic research