Despite this brutal and displacing semester, the project presentations by the students in the Information Privacy graduate course at The Faculty of Engineering Tel Aviv University deeply impressed me. Oz Shenhav, Director of the Innovation and Policy Development Department at Israel’s Privacy Protection Authority, joined me in judging the projects. We tried to look at the projects from both a technological and regulatory perspective.

The projects included the development and implementation of privacy-enhancing technologies or data-based research on privacy decision-making. Here are some examples of the projects that were presented:

– Federated learning for medical imagery
– Analyzing the Privacy of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO)
– Navigating the Post-October 7 events in Israel: Shifts in the Privacy-Security tradeoff
– Anonymization and privacy enhancement through synthetic data replacement for machine learning models
– Protecting real estate websites against bot scraping with apartment grouping
– Willingness to pay for privacy in LLM’s Services
– k-Anonymity Utility – Anonymity Optimizer
– Privacy Policy Summarization