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Blog post: Privacy Inserts

Post for the Balkinization Symposium on Ignacio Cofone, The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy Cambridge University Press (2023).

CPI Talk - Privacy through Contextual Integrity: From Theory to Applications

Prof Shvartzshnaider gave a talk at the Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, Waterloo University

The 6th Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity

The 6th Annual PrivaCI symposium took place in Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA on September 27-28, 2024. Prof  Shvartzshnaider co-chaired the event with SC&I Chair and Associate Professor of Library and Information Science Rebecca Reynolds; SC&I Visiting Professor Louise Barkhuus; Ruobin Gong, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Rutgers University. The symposium brought together over 70 international scholars to […]

Talk at CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy

Professor Shavrtazshnaider visited the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) group in the University of Waterloo and presented a talk on: PrivaCI — Privacy through Contextual Integrity

Rhythm Lab hosts the Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity

In late September 2023, The Rhythm Lab at York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering hosted the 5th annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity. The CI symposium brought together students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and practitioners from Europe, the United States and Canada to present and discuss early-stage and published work related to contextual integrity (CI), […]

SSHRC Grant: Privacy of Online Education Platforms

"Yan Shvartzshnaider, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering, is part of a collaborative project that has received $291,971 in funding from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to analyze the functionality and information handling of online educational platforms to determine if […]

Toronto Public Tech Workshop

Prof Shvartzshnaider presented on the privacy governance of learning management systems project at the inaugural Toronto Public Tech Workshop hosted by the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto "This workshop aims to address these challenges and offer new insights […]

Future Privacy Forum's Privacy Chat

Professor Shvartzshnaider joined a virtual privacy chat with Jules Polonetsky (FPF) and Professor Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech) to discuss the theory of privacy on contextual integrity as it relates to current tech and policy challenges.

New publication: GKC-CI: A unifying framework for contextual norms and information governance

A paper on GKC-CI unifying framework for contextual norms and information governance was published in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. GKC‐CI : A unifying framework for contextual norms and information governance by Shvartzshnaider, Y.; Sanfilippo, M. R.; and Apthorpe, A summary of the paper is available in Information Matters blog

Scholars’ Hub Presentation

Prof Shvartzshanider discussed privacy in virtual classrooms and his recent paper on "Virtual Classrooms and Real Harms: Remote Learning at U.S. Universities" Cohney Shaanan, Ross Teixeira, Anne Kohlbrenner, Arvind Narayanan, Mihir Kshirsagar, Yan Shvartzshnaider, and Madelyn Sanfilippo.The Seventeenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2021)