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Privacy professors Lorrie Faith Cranor and Alessandro Acquisti, both of Carnegie Mellon University, joined last month’s “pii2013” conference via a live video to discuss their new course in privacy engineering.

In a recent 60 Minutes interview, TAP scholar Alessandro Acquisti discusses his research on facial recognition search and its effect on privacy.

In a series of intriguing experiments, Alessandro Acquisti, a behavioral economist at Carnegie Mellon University, shows that people often reveal more than they mean to online. His work was recently profiled in a New York Times article, “Letting Down Our Guard With Web Privacy.”

The third edition of “Privacy Papers for Policy Makers” was recently released and includes the work of several TAP scholars. This third annual journal is aimed at informing and stimulating thinking among policy makers and policy thought-leaders in the U.S. and around the world. Highlights from the TAP scholars’ papers are included.

The Future of Privacy Forum is compiling important research and analytical work about current and emerging privacy issues in order to help inform and stimulate thinking among policy makers and policy thought-leaders in the U.S. and around the world. This post highlights the work of TAP scholars that has been included in the first two editions of “Privacy Papers for Policy Makers.”

Tomorrow (April 18th) The Center for Internet and Society Speaker Series presents Alessandro Acquisti. Professor Acquisti will link two streams of research he is conducting at Carnegie Mellon University: the "behavioral economics of privacy," and the study of privacy and disclosure behavior in online social networks.

Earlier this month, Silicon Flatirons hosted its Economics of Privacy conference to discuss information privacy and the economic drivers that define it. The event concluded with a conversation with Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Julie Brill. Several TAP scholars presented.

Given the release last week of the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed changes to COPPA (the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), TAP highlights the work of its scholars with expertise in location-based tracking, facial recognition, and the use of cookies to collect personal data.

In this video interview with TAP, Alessandro Acquisti discusses his work at Carnegie Mellon in the area of privacy. He explains how research in behavioral economics can help us make sense of apparent inconsistencies in some of our decisions. He also addresses differences – both cultural and legal – in approaches to privacy around the world.