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The cost of things: couple of interesting studies

What are the true cost of annoying ads? Or the trust cost of free mobile applications? Two very different studies looked at those questions. This paper, accepted to WWW, used an interesting methodology to vouch the impact of ad annoyance.

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The cost of things: couple of interesting studies

What are the true cost of annoying ads? Or the trust cost of free mobile applications? Two very different studies looked at those questions. This paper, accepted to WWW, used an interesting methodology to vouch the impact of ad annoyance.

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XKCD covers all possible opinions on Internet privacy.

Are all characters covered? Was Westin right all the way?

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XKCD covers all possible opinions on Internet privacy.

Are all characters covered? Was Westin right all the way?

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About Quitting

About quitting social media. A New Yorker Article describes a film, called ‘Noah‘, which premièred at the Toronto Film Festival early this week. The entire story plays out on the computer screen of the protagonist, a high-school senior named Noah. Please notice,

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About Quitting

About quitting social media. A New Yorker Article describes a film, called ‘Noah‘, which premièred at the Toronto Film Festival early this week. The entire story plays out on the computer screen of the protagonist, a high-school senior named Noah. Please notice,

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Ubicomp presentation uploaded: Locality and Privacy in People-Nearby Applications

Our Ubicomp presentation is now online! As a quick reminder, it presents our paper on privacy and locality in applications for people-matching, qualitatively analyzing how users manage their privacy and security in applications that are currently used mainly for dating,

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Ubicomp presentation uploaded: Locality and Privacy in People-Nearby Applications

Our Ubicomp presentation is now online! As a quick reminder, it presents our paper on privacy and locality in applications for people-matching, qualitatively analyzing how users manage their privacy and security in applications that are currently used mainly for dating,

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The Internet’s Infrastructure is Broken

A week full of loaded privacy news. The New York Times, The Guardian and ProPublica, had revealed information about how the N.S.A. is using well-placed backdoors to crack down the basic encryption of the Internet, including SSL (and its HTTPS

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The Internet’s Infrastructure is Broken

A week full of loaded privacy news. The New York Times, The Guardian and ProPublica, had revealed information about how the N.S.A. is using well-placed backdoors to crack down the basic encryption of the Internet, including SSL (and its HTTPS

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Two Papers to be presented at Ubicomp’13, Zurich

Ubicomp 2013 will be held in Zurich, Switzerland, next week, at September 8-12, 2013, in Zurich, Switzerland. Our group will present two papers at the conference: Eran will present the paper “Locality and Privacy in People-Nearby Applications” on Wednesday (Sep 11), the

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Two Papers to be presented at Ubicomp’13, Zurich

Ubicomp 2013 will be held in Zurich, Switzerland, next week, at September 8-12, 2013, in Zurich, Switzerland. Our group will present two papers at the conference: Eran will present the paper “Locality and Privacy in People-Nearby Applications” on Wednesday (Sep 11), the

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Shana Tova! (i.e., Happy New Jewish Year)

Its a great opportunity to wish you all a happy new Jewish year! With some great new beginnings, but do not forget to remember some old footsteps too. שנה טובה! עם המון התחלות חדשות, אבל כדאי לזכור גם מעט עקבות

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Shana Tova! (i.e., Happy New Jewish Year)

Its a great opportunity to wish you all a happy new Jewish year! With some great new beginnings, but do not forget to remember some old footsteps too. שנה טובה! עם המון התחלות חדשות, אבל כדאי לזכור גם מעט עקבות

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