I am super thrilled and honored to be among the 2024 awardees of the Google AI Research Scholar Program. This award would allow my lab at Duke CompSci to expand our research on improving the privacy and security transparency of emerging technologies.

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“Different users have very different experiences and/or are sort of treated differently.” University of Washington #UWAllen professor Franzi Roesner and colleagues leveraged data donated under the EU’s GDPR to gain insights into the inner workings of TikTok’s algorithm. 👀 fastcompany.com/91065874/resea…

So thrilled to see User-Driven Access Control [1] coming to life for the web in the form of Page Embedded Permission Control (PEPC) [2] -- thanks to Marian Harbach for alerting me to this!

[1] franziroesner.com/pdf/udac-oakla…
[2] github.com/WICG/PEPC/blob…

For those in the security and privacy community, if you’re not currently a member of the EFF, now — end of 2023 — would be a great time to join

Happy to share that our paper “When the User Is Inside the User Interface: An Empirical Study of UI Security Properties in Augmented Reality” was accepted to USENIX Security 2024.

Check out our project: ar-sec.cs.washington.edu/ar_ui/
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Super congratulations to Rachel Hong for her PhD Qualifying Exam talk on 'Evaluation of targeted dataset collection on racial equity in face recognition'. Rachel is with the Allen School WAIL: ML at UW (w/ Jamie Morgenstern) and UW CSE Security Lab. More about her work: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Super congratulations to Rachel for her PhD Qualifying Exam talk on 'Privacy Threats and Concerns of Commercial Satellites'. Rachel is doing her PhD with the Allen School UW CSE Security Lab and with the University of Washington Tech Policy Lab. Her work on commercial satellites: homes.cs.washington.edu/~rcmcamis/docu…

Paper with Umar Iqbal and Franzi Roesner on LLM Platform Security and plugins

our paper if you fancy: minjikong.com/2023SIGCSE_Kon…
course pilot's syllabus: tinyurl.com/UD-21F-DEIinCS

a special thank you to Tadayoshi (Yoshi) Kohno for his novella, 'Our Reality,' which our students read together as they imagined the future of tech! more info: homes.cs.washington.edu/~yoshi/OurReal…

Had such a great visit to the University of Washington, now on a plane to San Diego to talk about the book with privacy lawyers.

If you’re at #IAPP #PSR , see you Friday morning! iapp.org/conference/iap…

The Tech Policy Lab is excited to announce that we will be hosting New York Times tech reporter & author Kashmir Hill for a Tech Talk where she will be discussing her new book Your Face Belongs To Us.

Please RSVP by Tuesday, October 3rd: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/.

amazing paper by Umar Iqbal et al, clear and nice framework to explore vulnerabilities in LLM plugins: arxiv.org/abs/2309.10254

LLM platform plugin ecosystems are emerging without a systematic consideration for security, privacy, and safety! A new paper 🧵(1/)

Because LLM plugin platform security is fragile, we propose a framework that lays a foundation for LLM platform designers to analyze & improve security, privacy & safety of current & future plugin-integrated LLM platforms. Collaboration with Franzi Roesner & Tadayoshi (Yoshi) Kohno (4/)

What does the law say about these issues? Perhaps I should revive our tech-law paper: 'Is tricking a robot hacking?' papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

(work with
Tadayoshi (Yoshi) Kohno Ryan Calo David O'Hair, Ivan Evtimov)

TPL Co-Director Tadayoshi (Yoshi) Kohno named to EFF Board of Directors.

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EFF welcomes Erica Astrella and Tadayoshi (Yoshi) Kohno to our Board of Directors. They bring a wealth of experience in diversity, equity, inclusion, security research, and privacy. eff.org/press/releases…

Some thoughts on research elevator pitches. Creating and giving elevator pitches can be stressful. This post offers some recommendations on how to create elevator pitches and how to be kind to oneself while doing so. medium.com/@yoshi-kohno/o…