Recent News (Short Selection)
2013
March/April 2013: Our article on the shortage of privacy engineers is featured in IEEE Security and Privacy
January 28, 2013: Moderating Data Privacy Day Panel on Will the Mobile Web and Social Networking Mark the End of Privacy? see here too.
January 2013: CMU press release on our Mobile App Privacy work: Did Your Smartphone Flashlight Rat You Out? Crowdsourcing Privacy Concerns of Mobile Apps and a nice piece in The Red Tape Chronicles
2012
October 2012: Talk at TEDx Yale City 2.0
October 2012: Participating in CyLab Panel Discussion on Cyber Crime and Security organized in conjunction with screening of CODE 2600 documentary film
October 2012: Launching a new inter-disciplinary master’s program to train future Privacy Engineers and Privacy Technology Managers.
See CMU press release and a nice article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette
September 2012: Patrick Gage Kelley (COS PhD student) defends his dissertation on Designing Privacy Notices Supporting User Understanding and Control (Thesis Committee: Lorrie Cranor, Norman Sadeh, Alessandro Acquisti and Sunny Consolvo)
September 2012: Ubicomp2012 presentation of our paper on Expectation and Purpose: Understanding Users’ Mental Models of Mobile App Privacy through Crowdsourcing (authors: J. Lin, S. Amini, J. Hong, N. Sadeh, J. Lindqvist, J. Zhang)
August 2012: Jialiu Lin (CSD PhD student) presents her thesis proposal on Understanding and Capturing People’s Mobile App Privacy Preferences (Thesis Committee: Jason Hong, Norman Sadeh, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Sunny Consolvo)
June 11, 2012: 2012 Personal Democracy Forum , Panel on “the SENSEable City”, New York
June 2012: Our Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media article on urban computing wins the best paper award – see also our livehoods website.
June 2012: The TAC-SCM competition our e-Supply Chain Management Lab launched with SICS in 2002 will be running its 10th edition in Valencia, Spain (see call for participation)
May 2012: Can We Reconcile Privacy and Usability? , Computer Science Seminar Series, HKUST.
May 2012: “Mobile Privacy: Technology and Human Considerations”, Expert Address, Hong Kong University
May 2012: Why Phish Should Not Be Treated as Spam article in Dr. Dobbs
May 2012: Our Livehoods project continues to garner media attention – e.g., see Pittsburgh Post Gazette article , CMU press release, CMU homepage , WTAE interview , Wall Street Journal blog and media coverage abroad (e.g. Heise Online , Wired.it and Haaretz)
April 2012: Our Livehoods project featured in Atlantic Cities . See also MIT review article , Fast Company article or Wired’s blog
March 2012: “Smartphone Security and Privacy: What Should We Teach our Users and How?”, FISSEA 2012, NIST
March 2012: MIT CSAIL seminar: User-Controllable Privacy: An Oxymoron? – slides
February 21, 2012: Further speculation about the implications of the US Supreme Court’s ruling in US v Jones, including some comments I made on 3rd party doctrine here. See also Wall Street Journal article on FBI turns off thousands of GPS devices after Court ruling
January 23, 2012 – US Supreme Court unanimously agrees with our view that placing a GPS device under someone’s vehicle constitutes a search & that doing so without a warrant violated the defendent’s privacy. At the same time, they do not address more fundamental issues relating to expectations of privacy – See Supreme Court’s Opinion here and CDT’s statement here.
January 2012 – Wombat Security Technologies featured on CMU’s homepage
2011
December 2011 – Google Pittsburgh Seminar: ““From Today’s Android Permission System to Intelligent Security and Privacy Agents”. – see also our USEC2012 article on A Conundrum of Permissions: Installing Applications on an Android Smartphone
November 2011 – Panelist APWG’s Annual e-Crime conference, San Diego
November 2011: The Pittsburgh Post Gazette publishes my op-ed on warrantless GPS tracking – See also interview in CMU’s Piper
October – November 2011 – Joined CDT and EFF in amicus brief on warrantless GPS tracking filed with US Supreme Court (full amicus brief can be read here). See also ComputerWorld article and CMU home page coverage
October 2011 – Keynote at Pitney Bowes Mobile Day Symposium
September 2011 – Panelist at Qualcomm’s Contextual Awareness Symposium, San Diego
July 2011 – Wombat Security Technology, selected as Finalist for Tech 50 Startup of the Year award
July 2011 – “Mobile Location Privacy: Why it is Important & Challenging”, Invited lecture, Beihang University, Beijing.
June 2011 – Mobile Location Privacy: Forces at Play, Attitudes and Challenges, Expert Address, Hong Kong University
June 2011 – Wombat’s SBIR grants mentioned in the Wall Street Journal
May 2011 – Stepping down after three years as founding CEO of Wombat Security Technologies (see Wombat’s press release and also TEQ Magazine article )
April 2011 – EDUCAUSE webinar: Smartphone Privacy and Security: What Should We Teach Users?
March 2011 – Norman asks:’ Can Social Networking and Privacy be Reconciled?', CyLab Seminar
March 2011 – Michael Benisch (COS PhD student) defends his dissertation on Using Expressiveness to Improve the Efficiency of Social and Economic Mechanisms (Thesis Committee: Norman Sadeh, Tuomas Sandholm, Geoff Gordon, Craig Boutilier)
January 2011 – Norman on Data Privacy Day panel at CMU – see Pittsburgh Post Gazette article
January 2011 – Norman on “Privacy, Location and Social Networking” at Digital Privacy Forum (see also C-SPAN video)
2010
October 2010 – Locaccino featured in MIT Technology Review: Locaccino Shows How Facebook Places Should Work
October 2010 – Wombat Security Technologies secures $750,000 contract from US Air Force for Micro-Game Platform for Cyber Security Awareness (see also Coverage in Forbes.com)
September 2010 – Michael Benisch, COS Phd student co-advised by Profs. Norman Sadeh and Tuomas Sandholm awarded prestigious Siebel Scholarship
September 2010 – Norman talks to TEQ about his experience at CMU and the founding of Wombat Security Technologies
July 2010 – NSF Awards $2.7M Grant for Multi-Disciplinary Privacy Research to Acquisti, Cranor and Sadeh – see also CyLab Press Release
July 2010 – Article by Collins, Ketter and Sadeh in Summer issue of AI Magazine reflects on lessons and accomplishments of the Supply Chain Trading Agent Competition (see CMU Tech Report)
May 2010 – Norman invited to speak at Mobile Social Networking Asia
May 2010 – Norman asks ‘What Will the App Store of the Future Look Like?’ in Expert Address at Hong Kong University
May 2010 – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Startup Zipano sells privacy software to control who can find you
May 2010 – Wombat Security Technologies Releases New Phyllis Anti-Phishing Training game
March 2010 – Wall Street Journal – Locaccino mentioned in ‘As Location Sharing Services Grow, Privacy Concerns Do Too’
March 2010 – “User-Controllable Security and Privacy: Lessons from the Design and Deployment of a Family of Location Sharing Applications”, Google seminar series.
February 2010 – Focused Research Awards grant professors $2 million for study
February 2010 – The New York Times – Cranor, Sadeh and Acquisti receive Google award for privacy research
2009
November 2009 – TechVibe radio interview on combating phishing
August 2009 – NSF awards $3M IGERT grant for doctoral program on Usable Security and Privacy
June 2009 – Expert Address in Hong Kong
May 2009 – User-Controllable Security and Privacy: Are the Expectations
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April 2009 – CMU Podcast on Locaccino
April 2009 – Wombat Security Technologies featured as Pennsylvania success story in NewPA
April 2009 – Wombat Security Technologies Awarded US Air Force SBIR grant
March 2009 – Where Are you Now? – Locaccino on Carnegie Mellon’s homepage
March 2009 – Wombat: The Latest CyLab Success Story – CyLab Chronicles
March 2009 – Locaccino: Track Location with Privacy, Steve Baker, The Numerati
March 2009 – Locaccino Enables the Watched to Watch the Watchers, CyBlog, Richard Power
March 2009 – The Mobile Net – Why to Worry About Privacy Regs – BusinessWeek Blogspotting, Stephen Baker
February 2009 – Now You Can Track Colleagues and Students on Your Laptop, Chronicle of Higher Education, Jeffrey R. Young
February 2009 – Locaccino Now Available as a Facebook App
2008
December 2008 – Our Anti-Phishing Work featured in Scientific American
Fall 2008 – Q&A with Norman Sadeh – CyLab Chronicles
August 2008 – “Selective Access and Obfuscation of Enterprise Data”,
keynote, SAP Annual North American Academic Symposium, Palo Alto.
July 2008 – CMieux team wins 2008 Supply Chain Trading Competition Procurement Challenge at AAAI 2008
June 2008 – “Capturing and Understanding People’s Privacy Preferences in a Friend Finder Application”, Workshop on Opportunistic RF Localization for Next Generation Wireless Devices, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
June 2008 – “M-Commerce: Stripping e-Retailing to its Essence”, 2008 Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition, June 2008
May 2008 – “Combating Phishing Attacks: A Never-ending Arms Race?”,
Expert Address, Hong Kong University, May 2008
2007
*June 2007 – “Adaptive Supply Chain Trading”, invited speaker, SAP’s Inaugural North American Academic Symposium
*April 2007 – Norman speaks at ‘Location Meets Social Networking’ event organized by the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus (see also video)
2006
*October 2006 – MyCampus project featured in mobile commerce article in Pittsburgh Post Gazette
*August 2006 – “Mobile and Pervasive Commerce: The New Frontier”, opening keynote, 8th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC-06), Fredericton, Canada.
*June 2006 – “Ambient Intelligence: The MyCampus Experience”, keynote speaker, 14th IT21 Conference (Theme: “U-Society”), Seoul, Korea, June 2006 – see Korea IT Times article
*May 2006 -“MyCampus: Research Overview”, guest speaker, NTT DoCoMo, Yokosuka Research Park, Japan, May 2006
*April 2006 – CMieux wins Exhibition Supply Chain Trading Competition event at CS50