Category: Policy News

Co-PI Mislove testifies before House Subcommittee on social media data

Co-PI Alan Mislove testified before the House Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee on September 28, 2021. The hearing, ” The Disinformation Black Box: Researching Social Media Data” centered on the online spread of misinformation and the urgent need for data transparency and access to social media platform data….Continue Reading Co-PI Mislove testifies before House Subcommittee on social media data

Work on SmartTV advertising and tracking presented at FTC’s PrivacyCon 2021

UCI PhD Student, Janus Varmarken, presented work on SmartTV Advertising and Tracking at the Federal Trade Commission’s PrivacyCon 2021 event. This is joint work between PI Markopoulou’s and PI Shafiq’s groups that appeared in the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2020. You can watch the panel in the video below (first hour)….Continue Reading Work on SmartTV advertising and tracking presented at FTC’s PrivacyCon 2021

Work on differing dark patterns across modalities presented at FTC workshop

Northeastern PhD Student, Johanna Gunawan, presented her work examining how dark patterns differ across modalities of the same web service at the 2021 FTC “Bringing Dark Patterns to Light” Workshop. You can read more on the workshop here. Johanna presents in the first workshop panel beginning at 33:35….Continue Reading Work on differing dark patterns across modalities presented at FTC workshop

Privacy Aspects of Contact Tracing Workshop

We hosted a virtual workshop on Privacy Aspects of Contact Tracing on October 2, 2020. The workshop brought together experts with technical (security and privacy, networking, user interfaces) as well as policy expertise (data protection, disease surveillance, and other information-related aspects of public health). [Workshop] [UCI ICS News] [Registration is now closed]…Continue Reading Privacy Aspects of Contact Tracing Workshop

Facebook ad algorithm furthers political divide

Team members at Northeastern University and the University of Southern California collaborated on a project examining how Facebook ad algorithms distribute political content to its users. Their study found that Facebook’s ad platforms significantly skew the political ads users view and charge more to show content it’s algorithm does not think aligns with existing political…Continue Reading Facebook ad algorithm furthers political divide