I am a senior lecturer now. Yay!

I was promoted to senior lecturer! Yay! Its just another step in a long academic ladder, but its sweet anyway 🙂 I owe it mainly to my students, who’s creativity and hard work are the reason for this news. Events

Two papers accepted to the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC)

Two papers were accepted to TPRC, the 42nd Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy! The conference itself will be held at September 12-14, 2014, at George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, VA, USA. The conference is a meeting point

Privacy morning colloquium with Prof. Amitai Etzioni, plus our presentation

The Minerva Center for Human Rights is hosting a morning colloquium on contemporary privacy studies, with a keynote by Professor Amitai Etzioni from George Washington University. The colloquium will take place at June 12th, 2014, at the Law School in Tel Aviv University.

The right to be forgotten and Israel’s arcane database registration law. Are the two related?

Several interesting privacy news lately. The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg had ruled that Google, and other search engines, should allow online users to be “forgotten” after a certain time by erasing links to web pages unless there are particular reasons

Media Coverage: Learning Mobility Patterns covered in a Haaretz TheMarker Article

Haaretz’ TheMarker interviewed Irad Ben-Gal, our partner in the Learning Mobility Patterns project. The article, in Hebrew, provided deep coverage of the project, including some cool graphics of our automated calendar models (picture below). The article, however, did not get

Paper published: Crowdsourcing privacy preferences in context-aware applications

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing recently published Eran’s paper, titled: “Crowdsourcing privacy preferences in context-aware applications”. The official link is: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00779-012-0632-0 The paper tries to answer a simple question: how efficient can crowdsourcing be at predicting privacy preferences in location sharing? The

IUI’2014 in Pictures

Last thursday, the 2014 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) came to a close. We are proud to say that Tel Aviv University was one of the official sponsors of the conference, and we were  involved in organizing it (Eran was