USENIX Security Symposium 2019
Bargav Jayaraman presented our paper on Evaluating Differentially Private Machine Learning in Practice at the 28th USENIX Security Symposium in Santa Clara, California.
Summary by Lea Kissner:
Hey it's the results! pic.twitter.com/ru1FbkESho
— Lea Kissner (@LeaKissner) August 17, 2019
Also, great to see several UVA folks at the conference including:
- Sam Havron (BSCS 2017, now a PhD student at Cornell) presented a paper on the work he and his colleagues have done on computer security for victims of intimate partner violence.
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Serge Egelman (BSCS 2004) was an author on the paper 50 Ways to Leak Your Data: An Exploration of Apps’ Circumvention of the Android Permissions System (which was recognized by a Distinguished Paper Award). His paper in SOUPS on Privacy and Security Threat Models and Mitigation Strategies of Older Adults was highlighted in Alex Stamos’ excellent talk.
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.