I couldn't more highly recommend CNIL's Privacy Research Day -- so much interesting research being done by kind and thoughtful researchers. C'était un plaisir !

Honored to be recognized as one of the runners-up for the 2024 Caspar Bowden PET award. Our work proposes a framework to facilitate independent & repeatable audits on unmodified, off-the-shelf smart speakers without relying on cooperation from the platform vendors. Details here:

and Over Fences and Into Yards: Privacy Threats and Concerns of Commercial Satellites Rachel McAmis (University of Washington), Mattea Sim (University of Indiana Bloomington), Mia Bennett (University of Washington), Tadayoshi Kohno (University of Washington) #pets24

#AI generated sexual imagery may be labeled “deepfake,” but the violation can feel very real. A University of Washington #UWAllen UW CSE Security Lab Georgetown University study revealed varying attitudes to synthetic imagery—raising important questions around privacy + consent. #soups2024 washington.edu/news/2024/08/0…

Super congratulations to both Miranda Wei and Tanusree Sharma!!!

Super congratulations to Inyoung Cheong for successfully defending her PhD yesterday, titled "Collaborative Approaches to AI Governance: Exploring Co-Design  and Co-Regulation Models". Great job!! University of Washington UW School of Law Tech Policy Lab UW CSE Security Lab Social Futures Lab

Super great presentation from Natalie Grace Brigham at #soups2024, for her paper "'Violation of my body:' Perceptions of AI-generated non-consensual (intimate) imagery", also with Miranda Wei and Elissa M. Redmiles, Ph.D. . Paper at usenix.org/conference/sou…

tuesday: Grace presented great work on perceptions of AIG-NCII, co-authored also with Tadayoshi (Yoshi) Kohno Elissa M. Redmiles, Ph.D.. watch out for Grace, she's gonna be up to amazing things! x.com/yoshi_kohno/st…

thursday: presented our work on understanding help-seeking and help-giving on Reddit for image-based sexual abuse. what an huge team effort, s/o the absolutely stacked author team usenix.org/conference/use…

friday: memed 🥥🌴 my way through a critique of how we (me included!) study sociodemgraphic factors in security and privacy research, 🙏🏻 to Jaron Mink Yael Eiger Tadayoshi (Yoshi) Kohno Elissa M. Redmiles, Ph.D. Franzi Roesner for their advice & collaboration through all my rants usenix.org/conference/use…

Excellent talk at USENIX Security #usesec24 from Kabir Panahi and lucy simko on "Analysis of the Integration of Biometric Voter Verification in the 2019 Afghan Presidential Elections", also with Shawn Robertson, Yasemin Acar, and Alex Bardas . Paper at usenix.org/conference/use…

Great #usesec24 talk from Kaiming Cheng on "When the User Is Inside the User Interface: An Empirical Study of UI Security Properties in Augmented Reality" w/ Arka Bhattacharya, Michelle Lin, Jae (Jaewook) Lee, Aroosh Kumar, Jeffery F. Tian, and Franzi Roesner: ar-sec.cs.washington.edu/ar_ui/

* interrupting your election doomscrolling * I'm on the job market! I address online abuse as the next frontier of security & privacy, so all people using tech feel safe. Open to TT faculty/industry research roles in the US/abroad -- lmk if you know of a good home for my work!

Full house for the last talk and Best Paper Award winner at @ACM_IMC_2024 !

Congrats to Christina Yeung on winning the best paper award at IMC 2024!!!

At #SoLaR poster session (11 AM West Room 121,122) 1. Case Studies of Generative AI’s Use in Journalism arxiv.org/abs/2406.13706 2. Differentially Private Learning Needs Better Model Initialization and Self-Distillation arxiv.org/abs/2410.17566

Congrats to lab alumni Natalie *Grace* Brigham for presenting at the NeurIPS 2024 workshop on Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research (SoLaR)! See the poster: lnkd.in/g4KGbKum SoLar workshop: solar-neurips.github.io

Congrats to soon-to-be-Dr Rachel on passing the UW Allen School General Exam and advancing to PhD candidacy. Her research, with the UW UW CSE Security Lab and the Tech Policy Lab, is focused on satellites and computer security

This is Kaiming Cheng at his great talk on "User Comprehension and Comfort with Eye-Tracking and Hand-Tracking Permissions in Augmented Reality" at USEC earlier this week. Nice work!! 🎉Check out the paper at ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/upl…

We are only two weeks away! Register today!