OMG. It’s worse than even I thought. wsj.com/articles/you-g…

I just posted the camera-ready version of our upcoming PETS paper here: blues.cs.berkeley.edu/blog/2020/03/2… The Price is (Not) Right: Comparing Privacy in Free and Paid Apps. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS), 2020(3).

Frictionlessness is antithetical to autonomy. Frictionless design robs users of precisely those moments that may give them opportunities for reflection and enable them to reject their baser impulses.

Monitoring and quantifying are the first steps towards controlling. Such systems will only increase the existing social/power divide. At worse, this might end up being a tool for algorithmic bullying at work!

Extremely strong investigative ProPublica piece by ⁦Isaac Arnsdorf⁩ on how TeamHealth makes their money. In short, they don’t generously pay physicians. The gains from balance billing & aggressive debt collection go to the firm, not the MDs. A thread. propublica.org/article/how-ri…

Fair and fragile? We analyze the robustness of group fairness, notably equalized odds, in machine learning wrt adversarial bias, where a fraction of the training data is samples or labeled adversarially. arxiv.org/abs/2006.08669 Result 1: Fairness reduces robustness, and

Felt so nice to give a talk at #hotpets20! Do checkout the tool at github.com/privacytrustla…

Absolutely! Platform data tells only about our induced behaviour through carefully crafted nudges, not our natural (conscious) behaviour. I always wonder if our reactions to nudges reveal more about the nudge or our own hidden (subconscious) behaviour....

LET'S SOLVE PRIVACY #PriCon2020 Sept 26/27 ML Privacy Meter: Aiding Regulatory Compliance by Quantifying the Privacy Risks of Machine Learning Get tickets here! pricon.openmined.org

Sasi will present our open source tool for quantifying the privacy risks of machine learning models, and how it can be used to help compliance with privacy regulations. github.com/privacytrustla… #PriCon2020

"We are in the same storm, but not in the same boat." Prithibir Pathshala was made for those who are worst hit by the education gap widendend in the pandemic. A month at Pathshala-s is an eye-opener to us, how badly the pandemic has hit India. telegraphindia.com/calcutta/basti…

Here is the talk: youtu.be/F46lX5VIoas?t=… Sasi Kumar Murakonda OpenMined

Glad to be part of this team!

Privacy-enhancing technology protects user data and has massive potential to improve people’s lives and tackle financial crime. Sir John Whittingdale MP joined @CDEIUK and technology leaders to celebrate success and scope for growth in the UK’s £19 billion data market.