Violations of Children’s Privacy Laws
The New York Times has an article, How Game Apps That Captivate Kids Have Been Collecting Their Data about a lawsuit the state of New Mexico is bringing against app markets (including Google) that allow apps presented as being for children in the Play store to violate COPPA rules and mislead users into tracking children. The lawsuit stems from a study led by Serge Egleman’s group at UC Berkeley that analyzed COPPA violations in children’s apps. Serge was an undergraduate student here (back in the early 2000s) – one of the things he did as a undergraduate was successfully sue a spammer.
USENIX Security 2018
Three SRG posters were presented at USENIX Security Symposium 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland:
- Nathaniel Grevatt (GDPR-Compliant Data Processing: Improving Pseudonymization with Multi-Party Computation)
- Matthew Wallace and Parvesh Samayamanthula (Deceiving Privacy Policy Classifiers with Adversarial Examples)
- Guy Verrier (How is GDPR Affecting Privacy Policies?, joint with Haonan Chen and Yuan Tian)
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There were also a surprising number of appearances by an unidentified unicorn:
Your poster may have made the cut for the #usesec18 Poster Reception, but has it received the approval of a tiny, adorable unicorn? @UVA #seenatusesec18 #girlswhocode #futurecomputerscientist #dreambig pic.twitter.com/bZOO6lYLXK