New preprint: How mass surveillance can crowd out installations of COVID-19 contact tracing apps

What was the effect of Israel’s decision to use mass surveillance of cellular phones for COVID-19 contact tracing? Oshrat Ayalon and I have uploaded a new manuscript to arxiv that analyzes the relationship to the installation of the more accurate

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New preprint: How mass surveillance can crowd out installations of COVID-19 contact tracing apps

What was the effect of Israel’s decision to use mass surveillance of cellular phones for COVID-19 contact tracing? Oshrat Ayalon and I have uploaded a new manuscript to arxiv that analyzes the relationship to the installation of the more accurate

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Interview at Kann about the privacy implications of 9/11

Eran was interviewed in the “Three Ones Who Know” science program at the Israel Public Broadcast Network — Kann. See the program from September 12th, 2021, minute 29:00. The audio (in Hebrew) can also be found here:   And here:

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Interview at Kann about the privacy implications of 9/11

Eran was interviewed in the “Three Ones Who Know” science program at the Israel Public Broadcast Network — Kann. See the program from September 12th, 2021, minute 29:00. The audio (in Hebrew) can also be found here:   And here:

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Happy new Hebrew Year!

I’m really lowering my expectations from the new Hebrew year. Let’s just have fun while we can and stay healthy, okay? Perhaps a bit of research.

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Happy new Hebrew Year!

I’m really lowering my expectations from the new Hebrew year. Let’s just have fun while we can and stay healthy, okay? Perhaps a bit of research.

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Privacy Engineering for the new Data Collection by the Bank of Israel: An Interview at Calcalist

Eran was interviewed by Calcalist about the privacy challenges of the new system proposed by the Bank of Israel to gather consumer action data. Click here to read the article (in Hebrew).

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Privacy Engineering for the new Data Collection by the Bank of Israel: An Interview at Calcalist

Eran was interviewed by Calcalist about the privacy challenges of the new system proposed by the Bank of Israel to gather consumer action data. Click here to read the article (in Hebrew).

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Interview about Apple’s CSAM technology

Eran was interviewed by Omer Kabir from Calcalist about Apple’s new Child Safety technologies for identifying #CSAM and what they mean for privacy. I’m giving some examples of possible attacks that were not addressed by Apple’s protocol. (In Hebrew). Click

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Interview about Apple’s CSAM technology

Eran was interviewed by Omer Kabir from Calcalist about Apple’s new Child Safety technologies for identifying #CSAM and what they mean for privacy. I’m giving some examples of possible attacks that were not addressed by Apple’s protocol. (In Hebrew). Click

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