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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….

Discontent and disconnect

Lately, there is a steady stream of videos, art works and applications that somehow express discontent from the constant connectivity imposed we currently enjoy. From pictures depicting the…

Creepy Technology Roundup

Lots of shiny new creepy technologies lately. Here is a short roundup: – How easy it is to build a creepy spying gizmo based on Raspberry Pi? According to…

Visualizing Cellphone Antennas and Celebrities!

Interesting visualization of cellphone antennas in Manhattan. High-End Stores Use Facial Recognition Tools To Spot VIPs. NPR covers a new technology that uses facial recognition to recognize celebrities in offline shopping.

Israeli privacy roundup: In the workplace, in commercial databases and on the biometric database

Friday’s roundup has lots of stories about privacy in Israel. But before diving into that, it might be a good time to read The-Awesomest-7-Year-Postdoc or: How I Learned…

Friday News and Links

Leaked Israeli citizen database can help people forge the new biometric database. An eye-opening report by channel 2 (Hebrew). Privacy is not abstract when the interaction is between…

The three papers summary: Time on Facebook, People-Nearby Applications and Price in Location Sharing

Three new papers by my group were recently accepted to various conferences. In “Retrospective Privacy – Managing Longitudinal Privacy in Online Social Networks“, Oshrat Rave Ayalon looks at…