It’s over (for now). A majority of senators caved to the fearmongering and bush league tactics of the administration and surveillance hawks in Congress, and they sold out Americans’ civil liberties. Section 702 has been reauthorized, not just without any meaningful reforms… 1/10

The program is now available for the 8th Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection ( #ConPro24 ) on May 23, co-located with IEEE S&P:
conpro24.ieee-security.org/program.html

#ConPro24 's fantastic talks include: 🧵

Have you read [your work]? It seems very relevant to [your work]. Maybe too relevant.

My favorite kind of review :)

I am excited to share that starting in Fall 2024, I will be joining as an Assistant Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology Penn State College of IST at Penn State.

Thanks to Yang Wang, Andrew Miller, Sauvik Das | [email protected] Yun Huang @ UIUC, Dawn Song, and all my

upcoming #chi2024 paper w/ Yasmine Kotturi, Ph.D. -- we designed workshops to onboard local entrepreneurs to genAI for small business, w/ great lessons on scaffolding actionable use and also deconstructing what we call the 'veneer of simplicity' w/ genAI

ykotturi.github.io/files/Kotturi_…

Professor Sauvik Das (Sauvik Das | [email protected]) of CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute and a team of researchers constructed a taxonomy of AI #privacy risks by analyzing 321 documented #AI privacy incidents. Learn more about their research: cylab.cmu.edu/news/2024/03/2…

In an ABC News News piece, Professor Sauvik Das (@scyrusk) of CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute shares some of the benefits and risks of open- versus closed-source software with Max Zahn. Watch: abcnews.go.com/Business/elon-…

Gig workers face a hidden challenge: constant surveillance & lack of control over their own data, stripping their power to see workplace issues.

Our new CHI paper advocates for empowerment via workers' access to self-surveillance tools📊✊

👉arxiv.org/abs/2403.09986

#chi2024

I was fortunate enough to be interviewed for ABC News Max Zahn's article on open vs. closed source AI models in light of the open-sourcing of Grok.

abcnews.go.com/Business/elon-…

Gave a guest lecture on how to design security and privacy systems that users will actually use, and started it with a poll to ask students if they used a variety of security/privacy tools.

Pleasantly surprised to see fairly high adoption of things like password managers!

my chapter on 'Accessibility and AI/ML' for our new book on Accessible Computing -- I think it's a decent primer on the promise and challenges of applying machine learning to accessibility use cases ::
bookish.press/tac/AIML

How would you describe what I do in a few words to, e.g., a prospective student or collaborator?

As I prep my materials, I'm curious how my personal take aligns with the community-at-large.

Also: 'Beyond sharing their own PII, we found examples of users disclosing other people’s PII in their conversations with ChatGPT. This finding suggests that in... #LLM -Based CAs, there are not only institutional #privacy issues but also interdependent privacy issues' #ethics #AI