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 Blog
Articles by Professor Anita Allen of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and Professor Paul Schwartz of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law have been honored with the FPF’s Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award.
March 10, 2023
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Upcoming Events
CITP Distinguished Lecture Series: Lorrie Cranor – Designing Usable and Useful Privacy Choice Interfaces
March 30, 2023, Princeton, NJ
Digital Doppelgangers: A Workshop on Our Digital Others
May 4, 2023,
10th Annual Governance of Emerging Technologies and Science Conference
May 18, 2023, Phoenix, AZ
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Fact Sheets
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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“There are three central actors that worry me and that implicate our intimate privacy. That’s the corporate surveillance of intimate life. It's individuals surveilling and exploiting intimate privacy. And it's governments invading intimate privacy.” — Danielle Citron, Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
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Featured Article
For older people, cars are an important symbol of personal freedom, and they are unlikely to embrace self-driving cars; commercial services and millennials will adopt autonomous vehicles first.
June 22, 2016
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