New Masters Project by Hadar Shtern Salem: Views of Personal Genetics Testing and the Effect of Cancer Statistics

We are happy to announce that Hadar Shtern Salem had successfully defended her project “Views of Personal Genetics Testing and the Effect of Cancer Statistics”, co-advised by Dr. Eran Toch and Prof. Noam Shomron. The work analyzes the effect of

The lab research in Calcalist’s podcast: the externalities of Israel’s COVID cell phone tracking

The lab research was featured in a podcast and an article at Calcalist’s, one of Israel’s leading economics daily newspapers. Eran had introduced our results from our preprint, detailing possible negative externalities resulting from using mass surveillance to track people

Israel’s COVID-19 Cellular Tracking: Interview at GLZ Radio

Eran was interviewed by Efi Trigger on GLZ morning news show about the return of the cellular tracking for COVID contact tracing. The recording can be found here:  

Python programming workshop for kids: based on the visual Turtle Package

In unrelated news, here is the material for a Python programming workshop that we run in our local high school. The workshop, in Hebrew, is based on the Turtle visual programming package, which uses a Logo-like graphic programming model.  The

Speaking at the Innovation for Democracy Online Conference

Eran will be speaking at the Innovation for Democracy conference. It will be held online at Tapiai on 24/25 November 2021.  The lab will be featured in the “don’t fear the Techie!” panel, where we will talk about the the  digital

A paper in MobileHCI

How older adults (people aged 65 or more) get help from family and friends when facing security and privacy challenges on their mobile phones?  Our ACM MobileHCI paper was just published and will be presented in the upcoming conference, by

New mention at NBC News

An NBC News article had quoted Eran’s comments about Apple’s CSAM system, the challenges to privacy, and why delaying its rollout is a good idea.  Here is the link to the article.