Usable Privacy Projecthttp://www.usableprivacy.org/news-archive/2021-03-15T00:00:00+00:00Usable PrivacyCalifornia Office of the Attorney General Press Release2021-03-15T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2021-03-15:/news//125The California Office of the Attorney General <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-announces-approval-additional-regulations-empower-data">issues a press release acknowledging our contribution to the design and evaluation of the opt-out icon</a>. You can now also <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa/icons-download">download our icons directly from their website</a>.Opt-Out Easy2021-01-12T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2021-01-12:/news//116Our project just released a browser extension that automatically identifies opt-out links buried deep in the text of privacy policies as users browse from one site to another.
The extension, called "Opt-Out Easy," is <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/opt-out-easy/hikefgklfabiiecechanbafeficfojik">available for Google Chrome users</a>, and is based on machine learning techniques. A paper on this work was <a href="https://usableprivacy.org/static/files/kumar_iyengar_www_2020.pdf">presented at the 2020 Web Conference</a>. Watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2eWrPHyGJM">a short video about Opt-Out Easy here</a>.Our Privacy Icon To Be Used By CCPA2020-12-11T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2020-12-11:/news//120The California Office of the Attorney General (“Cal AG”) just announced they would rely on the icon we designed for the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). <a href="https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/news/2020/12/11-donotsell.html">CyLab’s press release</a> summarizes the work we conducted to inform and refine the design.New IoT Privacy Infrastructure and IoT Assistant App2020-12-03T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2020-12-03:/news//119We have released a new version of our IoT Privacy Infrastructure and IoT Assistant app. The infrastructure enables people to publicize the presence of IoT data collection processes at different locations and the IoT Assistant app enables people to discover them. <a href="https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/news/2020/12/03-iotassistant.html">Check it out!</a>New options in Privacy Engineering Program2020-11-23T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2020-11-23:/news//118Just announced <a href="https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/news/2020/11/23-privacyengineering.html">two new options in Carnegie Mellon University's privacy engineering program</a>. Both options are designed for working professionals interested in getting privacy engineering training without having to leave their existing jobs.2020 USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2020-10-15:/news//117Norman Sadeh gave a <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/pepr20/presentation/sadeh">presentation on the "Design of a Privacy Infrastructure for the Internet of Things"</a> at the PEPR'20 conference.SOUPS 20202020-08-07T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2020-08-07:/news//121Peter Story presents our work, <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2020/presentation/story">From Intent to Action: Nudging Users Towards Secure Mobile Payments</a> at the 2020 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. Read more in <a href="https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/news/2020/08/18-payment-method.html">CyLab's press release</a>.FTC PrivacyCon 20202020-07-21T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2020-07-21:/news//122Our group presents three articles at the annual Federal Trade Commission’s PrivacyCon conference (<a href="https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/news/2020/07/24-privacy-con.html">see also CyLab press release</a>):
<a href="https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_events/1548288/privacycon-2020-shikun_zhang.pdf">“Understanding People’s Privacy Attitudes Towards Video Analytics”</a>, <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_events/1548288/privacycon-2020-hana_habib.pdf">“An Empirical Analysis of Data Deletion and Opt-Out Choices on 150 Websites”</a>, and <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3313831.3376511">“‘It’s a Scavenger Hunt’: Usability of Websites’ Opt-Out and Data Deletion Choices”</a>.PETS 20202020-07-14T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2020-07-14:/news//124Daniel Smullen presents our work on <a href="https://privacyassistant.org/media/publications/pets-paper52-2020.pdf">The Best of Both Worlds: Mitigating Accuracy and User Burden in Capturing People’s Mobile App Privacy Preferences</a> at the 20th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. Here’s the <a href="https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/news/2020/08/13-mobile-apps-data.html">CyLab press release</a>.PLSC 20202020-06-04T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2020-06-04:/news//113Tom Norton is representing our paper "Evaluating How Global Privacy Principles Answer Consumers’ Questions About Mobile App Privacy" at the <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bclt/bcltevents/2020-privacy-law-scholars-conference/"> 2020 Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC 2020)</a> in Washington, DC. Co-authors of the paper are Joel Reidenberg, Norman Sadeh, and Abhilasha Ravichander.Apple Introduces App Nutrition Labels2020-06-01T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2020-06-01:/news//123Apple's iOS 14 <a href="https://developer.apple.com/app-store/app-privacy-details/">introduces mobile app privacy nutrition labels</a> similar to those proposed in our CHI’2013 <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2470654.2466466">“Privacy as Part of the App Decision Making Process” paper</a>. Apple informed us a little before the announcement.Privacy+Security Forum Spring Academy2020-05-06T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2020-05-06:/news//114Norman Sadeh to present at the Privacy + Security Forum, as part of the panel on <a href="https://www.privacysecurityacademy.com/iot-privacy-in-the-age-of-ccpa-and-gdpr/">"IoT Privacy in the Age of CCPA & GDPR"</a>.Joel Reidenberg2020-04-22T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2020-04-22:/news//115We are sad to announce <a href="https://news.law.fordham.edu/blog/2020/04/22/fordham-law-mourns-the-loss-of-professor-joel-reidenberg/">the passing of our friend and collaborator Joel Reidenberg</a>. Prof. Reidenberg was the Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg Chair in Law and the founder of the Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP). His contributions to the Usable Privacy Policy Project over the past seven years were invaluable. We will sorely miss him both as a friend and a collaborator. Two articles celebrating Joel's life, as a mensch and a scholar, can also be found <a href="https://iapp.org/news/a/joel-reidenberg-1961-2020/">here</a> and <a href="https://iapp.org/news/a/a-farewell-to-joel-reidenberg-mentor-scholar-mensch/">here</a>.Op-ed in The Conversation2019-10-31T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2019-10-31:/news//111Hana Habib and Lorrie Cranor published an op-ed on our study of website privacy opt-outs in The Conversation: <a href="http://theconversation.com/website-privacy-options-arent-much-of-a-choice-since-theyre-hard-to-find-and-use-124631">"Website privacy options aren’t much of a choice since they’re hard to find and use."</a>ACM Symposium on CS and Law2019-10-28T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2019-10-28:/news//110Peter Story presented his poster, "Government Use of AI: Costs and Benefits of Transparency," at the inaugural <a href="https://computersciencelaw.org">ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law</a>.PLSC-Europe 20192019-10-25T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2019-10-25:/news//103Tom Norton is representing our paper "Evaluating How Global Privacy Principles Answer Consumers’ Questions About Mobile App Privacy" at the <a href="https://www.ivir.nl/plsceurope2019/">2019 European Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC-Europe)</a> in Amsterdam. Co-authors of the paper are Joel Reidenberg, Norman Sadeh, and Abhilasha Ravichander.Founded PEPR2019-08-12T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2019-08-12:/news//107Lorrie Cranor co-founded the <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/pepr19">USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR)</a>.Tutorial at SOUPS 20192019-08-11T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2019-08-11:/news//104Norman Sadeh, Helen Nissenbaum, and Serge Egelman led a half-day tutorial at SOUPS 2019: <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2019">Contextual Integrity: From Theory to Practice</a>. SOUPS was collocated with USENIX 2019 in Santa Clara, CA.Expert Address at Hong Kong University2019-05-01T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2019-05-01:/news//105Norman Sadeh gives expert address at Hong Kong University, <a href="https://www.ecom-icom.hku.hk/expert-address-3#panelDetail0">"What if Computers Understood Privacy Policies? A Look at Advanced in Natural Language Processing through the Lens of Privacy"</a>.IAPP Summit2019-05-01T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2019-05-01:/news//106Norman Sadeh was invited to present our privacy research at the <a href="https://iapp.org/conference/global-privacy-summit/">IAPP Global Privacy Summit</a> in Washington D.C. Lorrie Cranor also discussed "Designing Notice and Consent for the Internet of Things".Lorrie Cranor named Andrew Carnegie Fellow2019-04-23T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2019-04-23:/news//109Lorrie Cranor was named an <a href="https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/news/2019/04/23-andrew-carnegie-fellow.html">Andrew Carnegie Fellow</a>.FTC Hearing #122019-04-09T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2019-04-09:/news//108Lorrie Cranor spoke at the <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/audio-video/audio/consumer-demand-expectations-privacy">"Consumer Demand and Expectations of Privacy" panel discussion</a> at the 12th FTC Hearing on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century. The hearing's theme was "The FTC’s Approach to Consumer Privacy".Presenting at PAL 20192019-03-25T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2019-03-25:/news//102Our project will be presenting 3 papers at the <a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2335/">AAAI Spring Symposium on Privacy Enhancing AI and Language Technologies (PAL 2019)</a> at Stanford on March 25-27, 2019.Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Privacy Award2019-03-12T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2019-03-12:/news//101Congratulations to PI Joel Reidenberg on being awarded <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bclt/bcltevents/2019bclt-privacy-lecture/2019-bclt-privacy-award/">the 2019 Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Privacy Award</a> "in recognition of his seminal scholarship, innovative policy entrepreneurship and tireless support of the privacy community."Op-ed in The Hill2019-02-01T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2019-02-01:/news//112Norman Sadeh and Lorrie Cranor wrote an op-ed in The Hill: <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/428121-congress-make-privacy-the-rule-not-the-exception">"Congress, make privacy the rule — not the exception."</a>Debating Ethics: Dignity and Respect in Data-Driven Life2018-10-24T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2018-10-24:/news//100Norman Sadeh participated in the plenary panel on <a href="https://www.privacyconference2018.org/en/conference/programme#sessions-tab-pane-0-3">Debating Ethics: Dignity and Respect in Data-Driven Life</a>, 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, European Parliament, Brussels. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5-skRDaiuc&feature=youtu.be&t=1303">Watch the video</a>.Michigan Radio Stateside Interview2018-10-16T17:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2018-10-16:/news//99Florian Schaub discussed issues with privacy notices, opportunities for better informing consumers and the Usable Privacy Policy Project in an interview for <a href="http://www.michiganradio.org/programs/stateside">Michigan Radio's Stateside.</a>IPEN Privacy Engineering Workshop 20182018-06-15T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2018-06-15:/news//96Peter Story presented our work on The Mobile App Privacy Compliance System at the <a href="https://edps.europa.eu/node/4694">IPEN Privacy Engineering Workshop</a> in Barcelona, Spain.SAC-PA2 Workshop2018-06-14T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2018-06-14:/news//97Dr. Norman Sadeh gave a keynote presentation on "Privacy in the Age of the Internet of Things" at the <a href="http://www.sis.pitt.edu/lersais/research/sac-pa/ws2/index.html">SAC-PA2 Workshop</a>.Annual Privacy Forum 20182018-06-13T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2018-06-13:/news//95Peter Story presented our study of Google Play Store metadata, "Which Apps have Privacy Policies?", at the <a href="http://privacyforum.eu">Annual Privacy Forum</a> in Barcelona, Spain.PLSC 20182018-05-17T09:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2018-05-17:/news//93Hana Habib is presenting our study "An Empirical Analysis of Website Data Deletion and Opt-Out Choices" at the <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bclt/bcltevents/2018annual-privacy-law-scholars-conference/">2018 Privacy Law Scholars Conference</a>. Co-authors of the paper are Yixin Zou, Aditi Jannu, Chelse Swoopes, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Norman Sadeh, and Florian Schaub.
Previously, Hana Habib presented preliminary findings from this study at the CHI Workshop <a href"http://chi-gdpr.webflow.io/">"General Data Protection Regulation: An Opportunity for the HCI Community?"</a>IAPP Privacy Engineering Section Forum2018-03-29T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2018-03-29:/news//98Lorrie Cranor, Norman Sadeh and Florian Schaub are panelists at IAPP’s <a href="https://iapp.org/conference/privacy-engineering-section-forum-2018/sessions-pesf18/">Inaugural Privacy Engineering Section Forum</a> at the IAPP Global Summit, in Washington DC.NSF News From the Field2018-03-01T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2018-03-01:/news//91<a href="https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=244730&WT.mc_id=USNSF_195">
NSF's News From the Field</a>
recently featured our
<a href="https://cylab.cmu.edu/news/2018/03/01-ai-privacy-policies.html">
research on automatically interpreting statements found in privacy policies</a>.
The article is based on the new release of our
<a href="https://explore.usableprivacy.org">
explore.usableprivacy.org website</a>.FTC PrivacyCon2018-02-28T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2018-02-28:/news//90Several project members will be presenting at the upcoming <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events-calendar/2018/02/privacycon-2018">Federal Trade Commission's PrivacyCon conference</a> on Feb 28, 2018.
Jaspreet Bhatia will present our work on "Empirical Measurement of Perceived Privacy Risk."
Norman Sadeh will present our work on "Assisting Users in a World Full of Cameras: A Privacy-aware Infrastructure for Computer Vision Applications."
Peter Story will present a poster, titled "Which Apps have Privacy Policies?"UPPP featured in Wired2018-02-09T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2018-02-09:/news//92A <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/polisis-ai-reads-privacy-policies-so-you-dont-have-to/">Wired article on automated analysis of privacy policies</a> features the Usable Privacy Policy Project and <a href="https://pribot.org/polisis">Polisis</a>, an automated privacy policy analysis tool developed by researchers from EPFL and the University of Michigan based on our OPP-115 corpus of annotated privacy policies.Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference2018-01-26T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2018-01-26:/news//89N. Cameron Russell presented the Usable Privacy Policy Project at the <a href="http://www.cpdpconferences.org">Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) conference</a> on January 26, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. The project was featured on the panel entitled "User Empowerment Technologies for Privacy, Regulation and Compliance."Keynote at 'GDPR and Privacy Engineering Research' Workshop2017-11-10T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-11-10:/news//87Norman Sadeh to keynote <a href="https://fpf.org/2017/08/30/privacy-engineering-research-gdpr-trans-atlantic-initiative/ ">workshop on "Privacy Engineering Research and the GDPR"</a> along with EU Data Protection Supervisor, Leuven, Belgium.Article in The Conversation2017-10-09T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-10-09:/news//88Florian Schaub wrote an article for The Conversation: <a href="https://theconversation.com/nobody-reads-privacy-policies-heres-how-to-fix-that-81932">"Nobody reads privacy policies – here’s how to fix that."</a> The article discusses how to design effective privacy notices and references other research by the Usable Privacy Policy Project.Privacy + Security Forum2017-10-04T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-10-04:/news//86Joel Reidenberg and Norman Sadeh presented work from the Usable Privacy Project respectively on the panels “The GDPR and Technology” and “From Big Data to Machine Learning to AI” at the <a href="https://privacyandsecurityforum.com/schedule-2017/">Privacy + Security Forum</a> in Washington, DC.Privacy Bridges at 39th ICDPPC2017-09-25T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-09-25:/news//84The Privacy Bridges Implementation Project report <a href="http://www.ivir.nl/publicaties/download/PrivacyBridgesUserControls2017.pdf">“A Roadmap to Enhancing User Control via Privacy Dashboards”</a> presented at the <a href="https://www.privacyconference2017.org/eng/files/programme_booklet.pdf">39th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners</a> highlighted our work on vagueness and mobile app compliance.Law + Design = Summit2017-09-22T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-09-22:/news//85Florian Schaub talked about our research on designing effective privacy notices at the <a href="https://conferences.law.stanford.edu/lawplusdesign-summit/">Law + Design = Summit</a> at the Stanford d.school.CDT on Connected Cars2017-08-01T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-08-01:/news//83The <a href="https://cdt.org">Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)</a> relies on results from our Mobile App Privacy Compliance tool in <a href="https://cdt.org/files/2017/08/2017-0731-2-ConnectedCarComments.pdf">a study</a> conducted to provide follow-up comments to the FTC/NHTSA workshop on <a href="https://cdt.org/insight/follow-up-comments-for-the-ftc-nhtsa-connected-cars-workshop-project-no-p175403/ ">Connected Cars</a>.SOUPS 20172017-07-12T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-07-12:/news//80Consider <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2017">registering</a> for our <a href="http://www.normsadeh.com/file_download/182">SOUPS tutorial</a>. We will cover new technologies, tools and findings coming out of our Usable Privacy Policy and <a href="https://privacyassistant.org/">Privacy Assistant</a> projects. Slides for our 3 tutorial sessions are available here: <a href="/static/files/SOUPS_Tutorial_Session_I.pdf">Session I<a>, <a href="/static/files/SOUPS_Tutorial_Session_II.pdf">Session II<a>, <a href="/static/files/SOUPS_Tutorial_Session_III.pdf">Session III<a>.PLSC 20172017-06-01T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-06-01:/news//81Our work on "Mobile App Privacy Compliance: Automated Technology to Help Regulators, App Stores and Developers" will be <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bclt/upcoming-events/june-2017-10th-annual-privacy-law-scholars-conference-plsc/agenda-plsc-2017/">presented at the Privacy Law Scholar Conference (PLSC)</a> by Sebastian Zimmeck. The co-authors are Ziqi Wang, Lieyong Zou, Roger Iyengar, Bin Liu, Florian Schaub, Shomir Wilson, Norman Sadeh, Steven M. Bellovin, and Joel Reidenberg.ConPro ’172017-05-25T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-05-25:/news//82Invited presentation by Norman Sadeh on our research at FTC Technology and Consumer Protection Workshop (<a href="http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SPW2017/ConPro/program.html">ConPro ’17</a>) in San Jose (co-located with 38th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy Conference).ICSE 20172017-05-24T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-05-24:/news//79Jaspreet Bhatia presented a talk based on her paper, "Mining Privacy Goals from Privacy Policies Using Hybridized Task Recomposition." The talk was on May 24th 2017, in Buenos Aires.US Patent and Trademark Office2017-04-18T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-04-18:/news//77Lorrie Cranor spoke about <a href="https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/ip-policy/copyright/consumer-messaging-connection-online-transactions">design and evaluation of notices</a> at the USPTO on April 18th.IAPP Global Privacy Summit2017-04-18T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-04-18:/news//78Lorrie Cranor ran an active learning session on Designing Notice and Consent for the Internet of Things at the <a href="https://iapp.org/conference/global-privacy-summit/sessions-s17/">IAPP Global Privacy Summit</a> on April 18th.Legal IT Conference2017-03-23T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-03-23:/news//76N. Cameron Russell presented the Usable Privacy Policy Project at the Young Bar of Montreal's Legal IT Conference on March 23, 2017 in Montreal, Canada.NDSS 20172017-02-26T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-02-26:/news//70Sebastian Zimmeck presents our paper Automated Analysis of Privacy Requirements for Mobile Apps at the <a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/events/ndss-symposium/ndss-symposium-2017">Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)</a> at the end of February in San Diego.CyLab Distinguished Seminar2017-02-20T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-02-20:/news//75"What if Computers Understood Privacy Policies? And, What if They Knew What We Care About?" Norman Sadeh is the speaker at CyLab’s Distinguished Seminar on February 20.World Federation of Advertisers' Digital Governance Exchange2017-02-09T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-02-09:/news//74N. Cameron Russell presented the Usable Privacy Policy Project at the World Federation of Advertisers' Digital Governance Exchange on February 9, 2017 in London, U.K.FTC PrivacyCon2017-01-12T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-01-12:/news//73Sebastian Zimmeck to present our paper on <a href="http://shomir.net/pdf/publications/plt_2016s.pdf">"Automated Analysis of Privacy Requirements for Mobile Apps"</a> as part of session on mobile privacy at the FTC's <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/es/node/942643">PrivacyCon</a>. Co-authors include Ziqi Wang, Lieyong Zou, Roger Iyengar, Bin Liu, Florian Schaub, Shomir Wilson, Norman Sadeh, Steven M. Bellovin, and Joel Reidenberg.7th Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers2017-01-11T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-01-11:/news//72Joel Reidenberg, Jaspreet Bhatia, Travis Breaux, and Thomas B. Norton <a href="https://fpf.org/privacy-papers-2016/">receive an honorable mention</a> for their paper, <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2715164">"Ambiguity in Privacy Policies and the Impact of Regulation"</a> at the <a href="https://fpf.org/7th-annual-privacy-papers-policymakers-january-11-2017-capitol-hill/">7th Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers event</a>. Alessandro Acquisti to give meeting keynote.NSF's Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) PIs’ Meeting2017-01-09T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2017-01-09:/news//71Norman Sadeh to present our Frontier project on Usable Privacy Policies and also participate in panel on “Conceiving and Running Center-Scale Frontier Projects” at the <a href="http://cps-vo.org/node/31366">NSF's Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Principal Investigators’ Meeting</a>. Alessandro Acquisti to give closing keynote on January 11.Privacy and Language Technologies Symposium2016-11-17T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-11-17:/news//68Usable Privacy Policy Project members Shomir Wilson, Alessandro Oltramari and Fei Liu are organizing an <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fsplt2016/">AAAI Fall Symposium titled "Privacy and Language Technologies"</a> in November 2016 in Arlington, Virginia. At the symposium we will present four papers, and the keynote will be held by Norman Sadeh, the lead PI of our project.
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<a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~breaux/publications/hosseini-aaai16.pdf">Lexical Similarity of Information Type Hypernyms, Meronyms and Synonyms in Privacy Policies</a><br>
<em>M. Bokaei Hosseini, S. Wadkar, T.D. Breaux, J. Niu</em>
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<a href="http://shomir.net/pdf/publications/plt_2016f.pdf">Analyzing Vocabulary Intersections of Expert Annotations and Topic Models for Data Practices in Privacy Policies </a><br>
<em>F. Liu, S. Wilson, F. Schaub, N. Sadeh</em>
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<a href="http://shomir.net/pdf/publications/plt_2016k.pdf">Automatic Extraction of Opt-Out Choices from Privacy Policies</a> <br>
<em>K.M. Sathyendra, F. Schaub, S. Wilson, N. Sadeh</em>
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<a href="http://shomir.net/pdf/publications/plt_2016s.pdf">Automated Analysis of Privacy Requirements for Mobile Apps</a><br>
<em>S. Zimmeck, Z. Wang, L. Zou, R. Iyengar, B. Liu, F. Schaub, S. Wilson, N. Sadeh, S.M. Bellovin, J.R. Reidenberg</em>CMU Press Release About Mobile App Compliance2016-11-15T00:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-11-15:/news//69<a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/mobile-app-behavior-often-appears-odds-privacy-policies">CMU press release</a> on our mobile app compliance tool and our work with
the California Office of the Attorney General features Sebastian
Zimmeck and Norman Sadeh.Computational Methods in Law2016-11-10T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-11-10:/news//65Florian Schaub presents our research as an invited speaker at the Symposium <a href="https://www.uni-ulm.de/cml-symposium2016">Computational Methods in Law: A European Perspective</a> on Nov. 10 in Ulm, Germany. The symposium provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on the application of computational methods in the legal domain and is jointly hosted by the University of Heidelberg and Ulm University.HCOMP 20162016-10-30T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-10-30:/news//63Shomir Wilson presents our paper <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2872427.2883035">Crowdsourcing Annotations for Websites' Privacy Policies: Can It Really Work?</a> (<a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~./shomir/pdf/publications/swilson_www_2016.pdf">pdf</a>) as part of the Encore Track at the <a href="http://www.humancomputation.com/2016/">Fourth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing</a>, in Austin, Texas. This track will consist of presentations for three top papers on human computation and crowdsourcing from peer venues. Our paper was a <a href="http://www2016.ca/program/bestpapercandidate.html">Best Paper Finalist</a> at the 25th International World Wide Web Conference in April.Collaboration with California AG2016-10-30T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-10-30:/news//67The California Attorney General’s Office has been piloting our Mobile App Privacy Compliance tool for the past several months. See recent <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-launches-new-tool-help-consumers-report">press release</a> from the California AG’s Office. This is work funded under our NSF Frontier project on Usable Privacy Policies and our <a href="http://www.privacyassistant.org/">DARPA Brandeis Personalized Privacy Assistant Project.</a>Privacy+Security Forum2016-10-25T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-10-25:/news//66Joel Reidenberg presents our research at the <a href="https://privacyandsecurityforum.com/">2016 Privacy+Security Forum</a> in Washington, D.C., as an invited speaker on a panel on <a href="https://privacyandsecurityforum.com/notice-choice-and-design/">Notice, Choice and Design.</a>Project in the News2016-09-26T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-09-26:/news//64Our project was recently featured in <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/3117626/privacy/carnegie-mellon-university-helps-you-control-your-privacy.html">CIO Magazine.</a> Joel Reidenberg and Florian Schaub's presentations at the FTC Workshop <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events-calendar/2016/09/putting-disclosures-test">"Putting Disclosures to the Test"</a> were further mentioned in articles from <a href="http://www.natlawreview.com/article/ftc-hosts-putting-disclosures-to-test-workshop">National Law Review,</a> <a href="http://adexchanger.com/privacy/ftc-probes-privacy-disclosure-efficacy/">AdExchanger,</a> and <a href="http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=e6056f98-f176-432c-bb5e-21a8bcc57b08">Lexology.</a>FTC Workshop: Putting Disclosures to the Test2016-09-15T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-09-15:/news//62Joel Reidenberg and Florian Schaub present our research at the Federal Trade Commission's public workshop <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events-calendar/2016/09/putting-disclosures-test">Putting Disclosures to the Test</a> on Sept. 15, 2016. Joel Reidenberg talks about ambiguity in privacy policies. Florian Schaub talks about contextualizing and personalizing privacy notices and controls. Lorrie Cranor co-organizes the workshop in her role as the FTC's Chief Technologist.
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More information about the Putting Disclosures to the Test workshop and a live webcast are available on the <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events-calendar/2016/09/putting-disclosures-test">event page.</a>RE 20162016-09-12T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-09-12:/news//56Jaspreet Bhatia presents the paper "A Theory of Vagueness and Privacy Risk Perception" at the <a href="http://www.re16.org/">IEEE 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'16)</a> in Beijing, China.<p>Jaspreet will also present a paper at the co-located <a href="http://re.cs.depaul.edu/aire16/i">Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering (AIRE)</a> titled "Automated Extraction of Information Type Hyponymy from Privacy Policies."ACL 20162016-08-07T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-08-07:/news//53Shomir Wilson presents our paper "The Creation and Analysis of a Website Privacy Policy Corpus" at the <a href="http://acl2016.org/">Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)</a> in August in Berlin, Germany. The paper introduces a corpus of 115 privacy policies with annotated data practices. The corpus' annotations can be explored at <a href="https://explore.usableprivacy.org">explore.usableprivacy.org</a>OPP-115 Corpus Release2016-07-25T09:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-07-25:/news//61<p>We are pleased to announce that the OPP-115 Corpus of annotated privacy policies is now available for download on our <a href="https://www.usableprivacy.org/data/">data page.</a> This unique resource consists of 115 privacy policies with a total of 23K annotations for data practices in privacy policy text.</p>
<p>For further details on the corpus, please read our <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~./shomir/pdf/publications/swilson_acl_2016.pdf">ACL'16 paper</a> introducing the corpus:</p>
<p>S. Wilson, F. Schaub, A. Dara, F. Liu, S. Cherivirala, P.G. Leon, M.S. Andersen, S. Zimmeck, K. Sathyendra, N.C. Russell, T.B. Norton, E. Hovy, J.R. Reidenberg, N. Sadeh, <strong>"The Creation and Analysis of a Website Privacy Policy Corpus."</strong> ACL '16: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Aug 2016 [<a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~./shomir/pdf/publications/swilson_acl_2016.pdf">pdf</a>]Privacy and Language Technologies Symposium2016-07-06T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-07-06:/news//60Shomir Wilson, Alessandro Oltramari and Fei Liu are organizing a AAAI Fall Symposium titled "Privacy and Language Technologies." It will be held on November 17-19 in Arlington, Virginia. The submission deadline for short and long papers is July 22. See <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fsplt2016/">the symposium website</a> for more details.SOUPS '162016-06-23T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-06-23:/news//54The Usable Privacy Policy Project has a considerable presence at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) this year. Multiple project members are presenting full papers, workshop papers and posters in Denver at the end of June:
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<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2016/technical-sessions/presentation/rao">Expecting the Unexpected: Understanding Mismatched Privacy Expectations Online</a><br>
<em>A. Rao, F. Schaub, N. Sadeh, A. Acquisti, R. Kang</em><br>
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<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2016/technical-sessions/presentation/gluck">How Short is Too Short? Implications of Length and Framing on the Effectiveness of Privacy Notices </a><br>
<em>J. Gluck, F. Schaub, A. Friedman, H. Habib, N. Sadeh, L. F. Cranor, Y. Agarwal</em><br>
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<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2016/technical-sessions/presentation/liu">Follow My Recommendations: A Personalized Privacy Assistant for Mobile App Permissions</a> <br>
<em>B. Liu, M. S. Andersen, F. Schaub, H. Almuhimedi, S. Zhang, N. Sadeh, Y. Agarwal, A. Acquisti</em><br>
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<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2016/workshop-program/wpi/presentation/reidenberg">Rating Indicator Criteria for Privacy Policies</a><br>
<em>J.R. Reidenberg, N.C. Russell, T.B. Norton</em><br>
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Visualization and Interactive Exploration of Data Practices in Privacy Policies<br>
<em>S.K. Cherivirala, F. Schaub, M.S. Andersen, S. Wilson, N. Sadeh, J.R. Reidenberg</em><br>
<em>Poster</em>
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Crowdsourcing Annotations for Websites' Privacy Policies: Can It Really Work?<br>
<em>S. Wilson, F. Schaub, R. Ramanath, N. Sadeh, F. Liu, N.A. Smith, F. Liu</em><br>
<em>Poster</em>Project newsletter2016-06-20T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-06-20:/news//59With the project now in its third year, we published a <a href="https://www.usableprivacy.org/static/files/uppp-newsletter-june2016.pdf">newsletter</a> which is intended to highlight some of our progress and activities over the past year. Our goal is to grow our project into a broader community of organizations and individuals interested in collaborating in this area.
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<a href="https://www.usableprivacy.org/static/files/uppp-newsletter-june2016.pdf">uppp-newsletter-june2016.pdf</a>Expert address at Hong Kong University2016-06-10T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-06-10:/news//58Norman Sadeh delivers expert address on <a href="https://www.ecom-icom.hku.hk/seminar/past2015.asp#Sadeh">“Privacy in the Age of IoT: New Technologies for Users and Regulators”</a> at Hong Kong University.Privacy Risk Summit 20162016-06-08T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-06-08:/news//57Florian Schaub speaks on "Designing Notice and Consent for the Internet of Things" at the <a href="https://www.truste.com/events/privacy-risk/">Privacy Risk Summit 2016</a> in San Francisco.Privacy Indicator Workshops at SOUPS2016-06-01T09:30:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-06-01:/news//51Florian Schaub is co-organizing two workshops at the 2016 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) on June 22, 2016, in Denver, CO.<br><br>
<strong><a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2016/workshop-on-privacy-indicators">Workshop on Privacy Indicators</a></strong><br>
This workshop focuses on the current state of privacy indicators, such as privacy policies, privacy seals, icons, notices, tones, strobe lights, scents, vibrations, or other perceptual means.<br><br>
<strong><a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2016/workshop-drones-deliver-privacy-policy">Will Drones Deliver My Privacy Policy? Workshop on the Future of Privacy Indicators</a></strong><br>
This workshop provides an opportunity for those engaged in researching privacy policies, notices, indicators, and other related topics to think creatively about the next evolution of notice and consent.<br><br>
The deadline for submitting contributions to both workshops is May 16, 2016.TOSEM article2016-05-31T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-05-31:/news//55The article <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2907942">Mining Privacy Goals from Privacy Policies Using Hybridized Task Recomposition</a> by Jaspreet Bhatia, Travis Breaux and Florian Schaub has been published in the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM).TA-COS '162016-05-23T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-05-23:/news//48Shomir Wilson presents our paper "Demystifying Privacy Policies Using Language Technologies: Progress and Challenges" at the LREC Workshop on Text Analytics for Cybersecurity and Online Safety (<a href="http://www.ta-cos.org/">TA-COS 2016</a>).Kiplinger interview2016-05-23T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-05-23:/news//52Kiplinger recently conducted an interview with Norman Sadeh on the Usable Privacy Policy Project and the recently launched <a href="http://explore.usableprivacy.org">Privacy Policy Exploration Website.</a> The interview is available online on the <a href="http://www.kiplinger.com/article/spending/T057-C000-S002-privacy-policies-deciphered.html">Kiplinger website.</a>ICSE '162016-05-17T11:10:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-05-17:/news//47The paper "Toward a Framework for Detecting Privacy Policy Violation in Android Application Code," co-authored by Jaspreet Bhatia and Travis Breaux, has been accepted at ICSE '16, the <a href="http://2016.icse.cs.txstate.edu/">ACM/IEEE 38th International Software Engineering Conference.</a>WWW '162016-04-11T17:45:43+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-04-11:/news//44Shomir Wilson presents our paper "Crowdsourcing Annotations for Websites' Privacy Policies: Can It Really Work?" at the <a href="http://www2016.ca/">25th International World Wide Web Conference</a> in Montréal, Canada. The paper has been selected as one of five nominees for WWW's Best Paper Award.Data exploration site in the news2016-03-31T12:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-03-31:/news//50Our recently launched privacy policy data exploration site <a href="https://explore.usableprivacy.org/">explore.usableprivacy.org</a> received considerable media attention, including articles on <a href="http://lifehacker.com/usable-privacy-shows-you-what-privacy-policies-actually-1764431489">lifehacker.com</a>, <a href="https://consumerist.com/2016/03/11/researchers-launch-tool-to-help-show-you-what-the-heck-privacy-policies-actually-say/">the Consumerist<a/>, and <a href="http://www.scmagazine.com/new-site-helps-users-comprehend-privacy-policies/article/482623/">SC Magazine.</a> See the
<a href="http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2016/march/privacy-policy.html">CMU press release.</a>Presentation at FPF Education Working Group2016-03-25T11:00:00+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-03-25:/news//49Joel Reidenberg presented the Usable Privacy Project and the <a href=https://explore.usableprivacy.org">explore.usableprivacy.org</a> website to the <a href="https://fpf.org/working-groups/education/">Future of Privacy Forum’s industry working group on education.</a> The group focuses on privacy issues in the education sector.USEC '162016-02-21T17:50:12+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-02-21:/news//45Pranshu Kalvani, a graduate of <a href="http://privacy.cs.cmu.edu/">CMU's MSIT Privacy Engineering program</a>, presents our paper "Watching Them Watching Me: Browser Extensions’ Impact on User Privacy Awareness and Concern" at the <a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/events/ndss-symposium-2016">NDSS Workshop on Usable Security (USEC)</a> in San Diego, CA.explore.usableprivacy.org2016-02-01T19:44:57+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-02-01:/news//46We launched a dedicated website to enable the exploration of some of the project’s data and analysis results. The website <a href="https://explore.usableprivacy.org/">explore.usableprivacy.org</a> allows to see different types of data practices highlighted in privacy policies of different websites.CMU Privacy Day 20162016-01-12T16:01:01+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-01-12:/news//39On Jan. 28, CMU celebrates the International Data Privacy Day with an exciting schedule of privacy-related events. Norman Sadeh and Lorrie Cranor host Ed Felten, Deputy US Chief Technology Officer who will give the event's keynote address.
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Join us at CMU on January 28, 2016! Find more information and the schedule of events at the <a href="http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/privacy-day/2016/">Privacy Day website.</a>FTC PrivacyCon2016-01-12T15:49:56+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-01-12:/news//38Multiple project members are presenting papers at the Federal Trade Commission's PrivacyCon on Jan. 14, 2016. Florian Schaub presents the Usable Privacy Policy Project. Ashwini Rao presents our research on mismatched privacy expectations online. Norman Sadeh presents our research on personalized privacy assistants. Alessandro Acquisti presents research on targeted advertising. Lorrie Cranor speaks in her new role as the FTC's Chief Technologist.<br><br>
More information about PrivacyCon and a live webcast are available on the <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events-calendar/2016/01/privacycon">event page.</a>Privacy Papers for Policymakers2016-01-07T13:56:43+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2016-01-07:/news//37The paper "A Design Space for Effective Privacy Notices" (<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2015/proceedings/presentation/schaub">pdf</a>) by Florian Schaub, Rebecca Balebako, Adam Durity and Lorrie Cranor has been selected by the Future of Privacy Forum as one of five <a href="https://fpf.org/2015/11/19/what-privacy-papers-should-policymakers-be-reading-in-2016/">Privacy Papers for Policymakers 2015.</a> Joel Reidenberg's paper "The Transparent Citizen" received an honorable mention. The authors will present their work at an FPF event on January 13 in Washington, D.C. Lorrie Cranor will further give the opening remarks at the event in her new role as the FTC's Chief Technologist.FTC Chief Technologist2015-12-03T17:49:55+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-12-03:/news//40Lorrie Cranor has been appointed by the Federal Trade Commission as the agency's new Chief Technologist starting in January 2016. <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2015/12/federal-trade-commission-appoints-lorrie-cranor-chief">FTC Press Release</a>European PLSC '15 2015-10-26T08:54:19+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-10-26:/news//34Tom Norton's paper "Crowdsourcing Privacy Policy Interpretation" will be workshopped at the inaugural <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/bclt/upcoming-events/october-2015-privacy-law-scholars-conference-amsterdam/">European PLSC</a> held in Amsterdam in October 2015.Privacy + Security Forum2015-10-23T15:36:48+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-10-23:/news//42Lorrie Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti, Joel Reidenberg and Florian Schaub will speak at the first <a href="https://privacyandsecurityforum.com/">Privacy + Security Forum</a> in Washington, D.C. The event is organized by Professors Daniel Solove and Paul Schwartz.Univ. of Chicago Coase-Sandor Conference2015-10-22T19:31:47+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-10-22:/news//41Joel Reidenberg and Jaspreet Bhatia presented “Automated Comparison of Privacy Policy Ambiguity and the Impact of Regulation” co-authored with Travis Breaux and Tom Norton to the <a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/2015-10-16-contracting-over-privacy">University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Conference on Contracting over Privacy.</a>SPSM'15 Workshop2015-10-12T15:39:49+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-10-12:/news//43Rebecca Balebako presents our paper "The Impact of Timing on the Salience of Smartphone App Privacy Notices" at SPSM '15, the <a href="http://www.spsm-workshop.org/2015/">5th Annual Workshop on Security and Privacy in Smartphones and Mobile Devices,</a> which is associated with the <a href="http://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2015/">ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS).</a>TPRC '152015-09-26T11:01:14+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-09-26:/news//30At <a href="http://www.tprcweb.com/">TPRC43,</a> Tom Norton presents the paper "Crowdsourcing Privacy Policy Interpretation" and Amanda Grannis presents the paper "Elements of Effective Notice in the Online Age."CCC Privacy by Design Workshop on Privacy Engineering2015-08-31T14:27:38+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-08-31:/news//36Travis Breaux organizes the <a href="http://cra.org/ccc/events/pbd-engineering-privacy/">Privacy Engineering workshop</a> of the CCC Privacy by Design workshop series in Pittsburgh on Aug. 31 & Sept. 1.<br>
Lorrie Cranor participates in a Privacy Standards panel, speaking about the original design of P3P, its implementation in IE5, and adoption by websites. RE '152015-08-24T17:31:52+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-08-24:/news//28Travis Breaux presents the paper "Detecting Repurposing and Over-collection in Multi-Party Privacy Requirements Specifications." at the <a href="http://re15.org/">IEEE 23rd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'15)</a> in Ottawa, Canada.RELAW '152015-08-19T14:23:12+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-08-19:/news//35Jaspreet Bhatia presents the paper the paper "Towards an Information Type Lexicon for Privacy Policies” at the <a href="http://gaius.isri.cmu.edu/relaw/2015/">8th IEEE International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law (RELAW)</a> in Ottawa, Canada.CLIP-NY AG Briefing2015-07-22T12:06:58+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-07-22:/news//33On July 22, Joel Reidenberg, Cameron Russell, Thomas Norton, Antoine Bon, Timothy Carter and Stephanie Tallering present the Usable Privacy Policy Project and related privacy research to the legal staff and chief of the Internet Bureau in the NY Attorney General’s Office.SOUPS '152015-07-16T19:25:19+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-07-16:/news//22Florian Schaub presents our paper titled "A Design Space for Effective Privacy Notices" at <a href="http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2015/">SOUPS '15</a> the Eleventh Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security in Ottawa, Canada.PPS workshop @ SOUPS2015-07-12T19:30:04+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-07-12:/news//23Alessandro Acquisti and Norman Sadeh co-organize the <a href="http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2015/pps.php">Second Annual Privacy Personas and Segmentation Workshop (PPS)</a> at SOUPS.<br>
Pedro Leon presents our paper on users' willingness to share information for online-behavioral advertising. A longer version of the paper is available as a <a href="http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/isr2015/abstracts/15-106.html">technical report.</a>FPF/CMU Research Showcase2015-07-01T17:10:02+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-07-01:/news//25On July 9, Norman Sadeh, Lorrie Cranor and Travis Breaux present the Usable Privacy Policy Project and related privacy research at the <a href="http://www.futureofprivacy.org/2015/06/16/top-carnegie-mellon-privacy-researchers-preview-new-work/">Carnegie Mellon Privacy Research Showcase</a> hosted by the <a href+"http://www.futureofprivacy.org/">Future of Privacy Forum.</a>Ono Academic College2015-07-01T15:21:57+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-07-01:/news//32Joel Reidenberg presents the Usable Privacy Policy Project and our paper, "Automated Measurement of Privacy Policy Ambiguity” at the Faculty Workshop of the Ono Academic College in Kiryat Ono, Israel.PLSC '152015-06-04T17:29:46+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-06-04:/news//27Joel R. Reidenberg, Jaspreet Bhatia and Travis D. Breaux present the paper "Automated Measurement of Privacy Policy Ambiguity” at the <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/berkeley-center-for-law-technology/past-events/june-2015-the-8th-annual-privacy-law-scholars-conference/">8th Privacy Law Scholars Conference</a> in Berkeley, California.Visiting researcher2015-06-01T17:00:56+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-06-01:/news//24<a href="http://sebastianzimmeck.de/">Sebastian Zimmeck</a> (Columbia University) joins the project as a visiting researcher over the summer.Experts Address at University of Hong Kong2015-05-28T10:45:29+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-05-28:/news//31Norman Sadeh gives a presentation titled <a href="https://www.ecom-icom.hku.hk/seminar/past2014.asp#Norman">Scaling Privacy in the Age of the Internet of Things: Could Artificial Intelligence Hold the Solution?</a> as part of the Experts Address Series in the University of Hong Kong's Electronic Commerce and Internet Computing Master program.CLIP Privacy Symposium2015-05-12T19:20:38+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-05-12:/news//21The Fordham University Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP) organizes the Ninth Law and Information Society Symposium titled <a href="http://law.fordham.edu/center-on-law-and-information-policy/35023.htm">Solving Privacy Around the World.</a> Project members participate in the panel titled "Consent Models and Technological Complexity."NAACL '152015-05-04T16:34:11+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-05-04:/news//1Fei Liu presents our paper titled "Toward Abstractive Summarization Using Semantic Representations" at the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technologies (<a href="http://naacl.org/naacl-hlt-2015/">NAACL '15</a>) in Denver, CO.2015 Consumer Assembly2015-03-04T18:17:24+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-03-04:/news//29Pedro Leon is a speaker on the panel “Consumer Information Disclosures: When Are They Useful?” at the 2015 Consumer Assembly organized by the <a href="http://www.consumerfed.org/">Consumer Federation of America.</a>White House Cybersecurity Summit2015-02-04T16:34:26+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-02-04:/news//2Lorrie Cranor participated in the <a href="https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/news_events/news/2015/cranor-white-house-cybersecurity-summit.html">White House Cybersecurity Summit</a> on February 13, 2015. See press coverage by <a href="http://blog.sfgate.com/inthepeninsula/2015/02/14/moving-beyond-passwords/">Peninsula Press<a/> and <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/troy-wolverton/ci_27475715/wolverton-putting-problem-perspective">San Jose Mercury News.</a>CMU Privacy Day 20152015-01-28T19:16:42+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-01-28:/news//20Lorrie Cranor, Norman Sadeh and Florian Schaub organize the <a href="http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/privacy-day">CMU Privacy Day 2015</a> to celebrate the <a href="https://www.staysafeonline.org/data-privacy-day/">international data privacy day</a> on January 28. FTC Commissioner Julie Brill is the keynote speaker.CPDP '152015-01-04T16:34:41+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2015-01-04:/news//3<p>Joel Reidenberg organizes a panel on "Can automated processing make privacy notice/choice more effective for users and DPAs?" at the <a href="http://www.cpdpconferences.org/Thursday22January2015/LaCave/LC22012015.html">8th International Conference on Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP)</a> in Brussels. Panelists are project members Joel Reidenberg, N. Cameron Russell, and Florian Schaub, as well as Aaron Burstein (FTC), Alexander Dix (data protection commissioner of Berlin), and Gwendal Le Grand (CNIL).</p>
<p>A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mCmGg9yyuo">video recording of the panel</a> is available online.</p>PASSAT '142014-12-04T16:34:56+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2014-12-04:/news//4Ashwini Rao presents our paper on <a href="https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/research/techreports/2014/tr_cylab14011.html">contents and concerns of online behavioral profiles</a> at the <a href="http://passat2014.scienceengineering.org/">International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT)</a> in Cambridge, MA.T-Labs Privacy workshop2014-11-13T19:08:12+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2014-11-13:/news//19Florian Schaub presents the usable privacy policy project at the <a href="https://usp.qu.tu-berlin.de/privacyworkshop/">Workshop on End-User Privacy</a> at T-Labs / TU Berlin.HCOMP '142014-11-04T16:35:18+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2014-11-04:/news//5Florian Schaub and Rohan Ramanath present two posters on crowdsourcing annotations of privacy policies (<a href="http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/HCOMP/HCOMP14/paper/view/9051">poster 1</a>, <a href="http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/HCOMP/HCOMP14/paper/view/9028">poster 2</a>) at the <a href="http://www.humancomputation.com/2014/">Conference on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing (HCOMP)</a> in Pittsburgh, PA.CyLab Partners Conference2014-10-04T16:35:44+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2014-10-04:/news//6Multiple project members give presentations and present projected-related posters at the <a href="https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/news_events/partner-conference/2014/conference-registration-2014.html">CMU CyLab Partners Conference.</a>TPRC '142014-09-19T19:01:58+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2014-09-19:/news//18Joel Reidenberg, N. Cameron Russell, and Pedro Leon present three project papers at the <a href="http://www.tprcweb.com/">42nd Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC)</a> in Arlington, VA.Article in Privacy Engineering Journal2014-09-09T17:27:36+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2014-09-09:/news//26The article <a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00766-013-0190-7">Eddy, A Formal Language for Specifying and Analyzing Data Flow Specifications for Conflicting Privacy Requirements</a> authored by Travis D. Breaux, Hanan Hibshi and Ashwini Rao appears in the Requirements Engineering Journal (vol. 19. no. 3, pp. 281–307).RE '142014-09-04T16:36:07+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2014-09-04:/news//7Travis Breaux presents our paper titled <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~breaux/publications/tdbreaux-re14.pdf">Scaling requirements extraction to the crowd</a> at the <a href="http://webhotel.bth.se/re14/">22nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)</a> in Karlskrona, Sweden.COLING '142014-08-04T16:36:28+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2014-08-04:/news//8Fei Liu presents our paper on <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~feiliu/papers/COLING_2014.pdf">automatic alignment of privacy statements</a> at the <a href="http://www.coling-2014.org/">25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)</a> in Dublin, Ireland.SOUPS '142014-07-04T16:36:44+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2014-07-04:/news//9<p>Alessandro Acquisti and Norman Sadeh co-organize the <a href="http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2014/workshops/privacy.html">Workshop on Privacy Personas and Segmentation</a> at the <a href="http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2014/">Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2014)</a> at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, CA.</p>
<p>Project members also present a full paper on <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2014/proceedings/presentation/lin">modeling users' mobile privacy preferences</a> and two posters at SOUPS.</p>Workshop on the Future of Privacy Notice and Choice2014-06-25T16:37:01+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2014-06-25:/news//10Lorrie Faith Cranor and Norman Sadeh organize the <a href="https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/news_events/events/fopnac/">Workshop on the Future of Privacy Notice and Choice</a> held on June 27 at Carnegie Mellon University. The workshop will include invited speakers; panels focussing on users, technology, and public policy; and a research poster session. Participation is free of charge, but registration is required.
ACL '142014-06-18T18:45:40+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2014-06-18:/news//15Rohan Ramanath presents our paper on <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~feiliu/papers/ACL_2014.pdf">unsupervised alignment of privacy policies</a> at the <a href="http://acl2014.org/">Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)</a> in Baltimore, MD.PLSC '142014-06-14T18:47:35+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2014-06-14:/news//16Pedro Leon presents our work on understanding users' attitudes towards Online Behavioral Advertising (OBA) at the <a href="http://www.law.berkeley.edu/plsc.htm">Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC)</a> in Washington, DC.Bank Privacy2014-06-02T18:51:07+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2014-06-02:/news//17Pedro Leon, Lorrie Cranor and Blase Ur launch the <a href="http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/bankprivacy/">Bank Privacy website.</a> It hosts information about the data practices of more than 6,000 U.S. financial institutions, which were obtained by automatically retrieving and analyzing the institutions' standardized privacy notices. Consumers can learn how their financial institutions handle their personal information and compare data practices of different institutions. <a href="http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/pgl/financialnotices-UnderReview.pdf">A paper detailing the work</a> is currently under review.Technology Review op-ed2014-04-04T16:37:15+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2014-04-04:/news//11Lorrie Cranor’s op-ed <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/526421/self-defense/">It is difficult to protect your privacy even if you know how</a> was featured in the April 23, 2014 issue of MIT Technology Review.
WWW '142014-04-03T18:37:34+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2014-04-03:/news//14Our paper on creating privacy preference profiles for smartphone users is presented at the <a href="http://www2014.kr/">23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)</a> in Seoul, Korea. The paper is titled <a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2568035">Reconciling mobile app privacy and usability on smartphones: could user privacy profiles help?</a>Tech report published2013-12-04T16:37:32+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2013-12-04:/news//12Our tech report <a href="http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/isr2013/abstracts/13-119.html">The Usable Privacy Policy Project: Combining Crowdsourcing, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to Semi-Automatically Answer Those Privacy Questions Users Care About</a> is now available. The tech report provides an overview of the project, its objectives, and our approach.Project proposal accepted by NSF2013-08-04T16:37:48+00:00tag:www.usableprivacy.org,2013-08-04:/news//13<p>NSF announces the selection of our project as one of three Frontier research projects under the Secure and Trustworthy Computing program: <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=128679&org=NSF&from=news">NSF invests $20 million in large projects to keep our nation's cyberspace secure and trustworthy.</a></p>
<p>See also press releases from <a href="http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2013/august/aug20_webprivacypolicies.html">CMU</a>, <a href=http://law.fordham.edu/30571.htm">Fordham</a> and <a href="http://stanford.io/170Bil5">Stanford</a>.</p>
<p>Additional press coverage: <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/news/carnegie-mellon-university-project-aiming-to-simplify-privacy-policies-700128/">Pittsburgh Post Gazette (Aug 21, 2013)</a> and <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/blog/techflash/2013/08/cmu-researchers-aim-to-level-the.html?page=all">Pittsburgh Business Times (Aug 21, 2013).</a></p>