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Privacy and Security

Information technology lets people learn about one another on a scale previously unimaginable. Information in the wrong hands can be harmful. Scholars on this site consider problems of privacy, fraud, identity, and security posed by the digital age.

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TAP Academics

Alessandro Acquisti
Carnegie Mellon University
Privacy and Security, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Internet, Search and Advertising, Artificial Intelligence

Anita Allen
University of Pennsylvania
Privacy and Security

danah boyd
Microsoft New England Research & Development Center
Privacy and Security, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

M. Ryan Calo
University of Washington
Privacy and Security, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Internet, Artificial Intelligence, Future of Work

Fred H. Cate
Indiana University, Bloomington
Privacy and Security, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing

Theodore Christakis
Université Grenoble Alpes
Privacy and Security, Artificial Intelligence

Danielle Citron
University of Virginia
Privacy and Security, Artificial Intelligence

Lorrie Faith Cranor
Carnegie Mellon University
Privacy and Security

Kate Crawford
University of Southern California
Privacy and Security, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Internet, Artificial Intelligence, Future of Work

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TAP Blog

Danielle Citron Leads New LawTech Center at UVA

Professor Danielle Citron is the inaugural director of the LawTech Center, a new scholarly center at the University of Virginia Law School.

TAP Staff Blogger

September 29, 2021

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Upcoming Events

Security by Spectacle: The Invention of Gray Hat Hacking & The Fight Against Microsoft in the 1990s

December 14, 2021,

10th Annual BCLT Privacy Law Forum

February 24, 2022, East Palo Alto, CA

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Fact Sheets

Social Networking

Social networking websites are places on the Internet where people can connect with those who share their interests. Additionally, they can function as economic “platforms” that serve different groups of many users, including consumers, advertisers, game developers, and others.

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Quote

Talking about abortion online in Texas? What you say on Facebook or Twitter could hurt you

“This is such a terrifying assault on intimate privacy. It incentivizes spying and exposure of women and girls and their intimate relationships and reproductive life that is unfathomably troubling.” — Danielle Citron, Professor of Law, University of Virginia

Danielle Citron
USA Today
September 4, 2021

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Scale Effects in Web Search

This study considers how learning affects competition between search engines. As learning proceeds, it tends to slow down. Could a new search engine with a better algorithm overcome a large search engine with more data?

By: R. Preston McAfee, Aadharsh Kannan, Di He, Justin Rao, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu

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