Talking at the Bar Ilan conference on Challenges of Network Privacy

Eran will talk at the Bar Ilan conference on the Challenges of Network Privacy at the Department for Information Sciences. Eran will discuss: “The Externalities of Privacy Harms: Evidence from Contact Tracing Surveillance during the COVID-19 Pandemic.”

Lecture at the Technion Behavioral Data Science Symposium

Eran will give an invited talk at the Technion Behavioral Data Science Symposium on January 1, 2023. This full-day (10:00-18:00) symposium will bring together researchers from academia and industry who work on topics at the intersection of behavioral science and data

Coverage of Meerkat: an interview with Eran at 103FM radio station

The national radio station 103FM in Israel interviewed Eran about the Meerkat project (in Hebrew). Meerkat is a social mobile app that helps older adults to get support from their friends and family when they encounter something on their smartphone which is

New paper accepted for publication: Can Previews Mitigate the Effect of Interruptions? Findings from a Lab Experiment under Various Workloads

We are happy to announce that Frank Bolton’s paper, “Can Previews Mitigate the Effect of Interruptions? Findings from a Lab Experiment under Various Workloads”, was recently accepted by the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. The paper is available to download here,

Speaking at the Minvera-Gentner Symposium in Jerusalem 2022: Cross-cultural, comparative analysis of digital privacy

Eran will be speaking at a fascinating symposium in Jerusalem next week — Studying a concept in disarray: Cross-cultural, comparative analysis of digital privacy. It’s happening at @HebrewUm, organized by @Think_Macro and others, October 26-27. The full program is here. 

New paper accepted to CSCW: How Mass surveillance Crowds Out Installations of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications

Our paper was accepted (pending minor revisions) to CSCW 2023: How Mass surveillance Crowds Out Installations of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications. The paper analyzes the effect of Israel’s decision to use mass surveillance of cellular phones for COVID-19 contact tracing. Oshrat Ayalon and Eran

In English: Interview about NSO Group’s Spyware

Eran was interviewed in English by Calcalist about the Israeli Police and NSO’s Spyware usage. The government-appointed investigators issued a report Monday saying there was no indication that the police illegally hacked the phones of Israelis using the Pegasus spyware of the