Digital Humanities Masters Project: Digitizing Trademarks in the British Mandate’s Palestine Gazette

This research focuses on digitizing and analyzing trademark registration notifications published in “The Gazette” newspaper during the British Mandate’s rule in Palestine (1917-1948). Unfortunately, the comprehensive trademark registry from this period has been lost, leaving a significant gap in the

Google Cloud event on Web 3.0 and Privacy in Blockchain environments

Eran will be speaking at a Google Cloud event on “From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0: Strategies for Embracing Decentralization”, this June 19th, at Google’s Tel Aviv offices, speaking about “Balancing Privacy and Transparency: Anonymized Statistics in Blockchain”. Event details can

Danielle winning a 2023 IAPP Westin Scholar Award!

Very proud of Ph.D. candidate Danielle Movsowitz Davidow for winning the 2023-2024 IAPP Westin Scholar Award! The Westin Scholar Award aims to recognize future leaders in privacy or data protection students enrolled in privacy-focused courses around the globe, by the IAPP, the International Association of Privacy Professionals,

New paper published at the Privacy and Identity Management Proceedings

A new paper, Valuation of Differential Privacy Budget in Data Trade: A Conjoint Analysis, by Michael Khavkin and Eran Toch was published in the Privacy and Identity Management IFIP Proceedings! In the article, we analyze the decision-making process of people who

Interview about Israel’s privacy adequacy with the E.U.

Eran was interviewed in Calcalist about Israel’s privacy adequacy with the E.U., and why the $1.3B fine issued to Meta because of Facebook’s storage of data in the U.S. is a critical warning sign to Israel’s high-tech industry. Full interview

Published at CSCW: How Mass surveillance Crowds Out Installations of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications

Our paper was just published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer InteractionVolume 7Issue CSCW1: How Mass Surveillance Crowds Out Installations of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications, by Eran Toch and Oshrat Ayalon. You can also download the paper from here.

Participating at a panel at the Digital Governance at the Age of AI Conference at Bar Ilan

Eran will participate in a panel at the Digital Governance at the Age of AI Conference at Bar Ilan University, discussing ethical risks in digital devices from a data science perspective. The conference will be at Bar Ilan University, Jan