New Article: Retrospective Privacy – Managing Longitudinal Privacy in Online Social Networks

A new article was just accepted to SOUPS – Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security. The paper, written by Oshrat Ayalon, and based on her Masters Thesis work, investigates how content aging affects people’s privacy preferences. Or, as the abstract puts it:

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46 Things We’ve Learned From Facebook Studies: Kashmir Hill summarizes lots of Facebook studies. Want some water on a hot day in Tel Aviv? Give us your data! On the water refill in Tel Aviv (Hebrew). More than anything, it seems as

Bay Area Talks: The Slides

You are welcome to view or download my slides from the Bay Area talks, at Google and Facebook. To download the PDF slides, click on the “Slideshare” icon, and then on “Save”. Crowdsourcing privacy: Bay Area Talks from Eran Toch

Humans and cybersecurity: A Talk at the Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposia

For anyone interested in following up from the talk yesterday in Irvine, CA, here is a lecture in the Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposia. The talk looks at about how humans actually manage their computer security, starting with passwords, through

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57% of israelis own a Smartphone, a fact that ranks Israel as the 2nd highest country with regard to smartphone penetration rate. The Ynet report on a survey done for Google by IpsosMediaCT also reveals where Israelis use their smartphones and

Travelling to California

I will be travelling to attend the Israeli-American National Academy of Sciences‘ Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium program at Irvine, California. I will be there from the 14th to the 18th of June. Afterwards, I will fly to the Bay Area, to give a

Congratulations to Gabi and Omer for their Excellence Scholarships

Congratulations (and a big Mabruk) to Gabi Cohen and Omer Barak! They just received the faculty’s excellence scholarships for graduate students. Both Gabi and Omer are working on identifying patterns in mobile location data.