Media coverage of our COVID-19 Study (in Hebrew and in English)

Israel’s financial newspaper, Calcalist, had covered our study of the adoption and attitudes towards COVID-19 contact tracing technology. We had asked a representative sample of Israelis about their installation of the official contact tracing app in Israel and about their

Coverage of our Smart City Project at TheMarker

Israel’s TheMarker newspaper had covered our collaborative research about Smart City Cyber Security, with Dr. Tali Hatuka, Prof. Michael Birnhack, and Dr. Hadas Tzur. The full article is available in this link or downloadable from TheMarker Article – Smart Cities.

Sabbatical at Cornell Tech

I am excited to announce that I would spend my sabbatical next year at Cornell Tech in New York City, as a Visiting Associate Professor. I look forward to working with Helen Nissenbaum and others at the Digital Life Initiative, working

An article about the lab in the Jerusalem Post

An article about some new research projects in the lab just published at the Jerusalem Post. The projects include privacy in smart cities, privacy choice architectures, and controlling genetic privacy.

The right to be forgotten and Israel’s arcane database registration law. Are the two related?

Several interesting privacy news lately. The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg had ruled that Google, and other search engines, should allow online users to be “forgotten” after a certain time by erasing links to web pages unless there are particular reasons

Facebook Graduate Fellowship

We are happy to congratulate our group member Oshrat, who is a finalist in the Facebook Graduate Fellowship!

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 to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-track-faculty-life. A Scientific American article, providing a