CS Colloquium: Social Privacy, by Ilaria Liccardi Tuesday 5/6 @ 12:30PM
Social Privacy: Create tools and techniques to help people understand how to safeguard their personal information.
TUESDAY, 5/6/2014, 12:30 PM in SCI-E111
PLEASE RSVP for lunch by Friday 5/2 by filling this google doc.
Abstract: Many smartphone apps collect personal information which is used for a variety of purposes - such as advertising for revenue, with personal information used to provide relevant targeting and to discover market trends. Recent news reports have documented how the NSA has used leaky apps to spy on users’ profiles. Users, however, are often unaware of this kind of access even though they grant the required permissions upon app installation. We present different tools and techniques that we have designed and developed, the motivations behind their implementation and various challenges we have encountered.
Bio: Ilaria Liccardi is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow working in the the Decentralized Information Group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (MIT) with Prof. Hal Abelson, Daniel J. Weitzner and Joseph Pato. She investigates how users understand and perceive transparency mechanisms in mobile and/or web applications. She creates and devises tools and techniques to help users be better aware of possible dangers associated with access to and sharing of their personal information. She believes that helping users make clear and informed choices will help them to value their privacy and choose apps or sites less likely to access and/or share their personal information