Developer-Centered Privacy

Project Overview

Developers are users too and they are impacted by many of the same usability issues that plague users. In this project we look at how developers engage with privacy and think about ways to better support them in doing so.

People

Mohammad Tahaei
Kami Vaniea

Publications

Papers produced as part of this research project.

Mohammad Tahaei, Kami Vaniea, Awais Rashid (2023). Embedding Privacy Into Design Through Software Developers: Challenges and Solutions. In IEEE Security & Privacy.

Mohammad Tahaei, Kami Vaniea (2022). Recruiting Participants with Programming Skills: A Comparison of Four Crowdsourcing Platforms and a CS Student Mailing List. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

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Mohammad Tahaei, Kami Vaniea (2022). Lessons Learned From Recruiting Participants With Programming Skills for Empirical Privacy and Security Studies. In 1st International Workshop on Recruiting Participants for Empirical Software Engineering (RoPES'22).

Mohammad Tahaei, Tianshi Li, Kami Vaniea (2022). Understanding Privacy-Related Advice on Stack Overflow. In Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies.

Mohammad Tahaei, Alisa Frik, Kami Vaniea (2021). Deciding on Personalized Ads: Nudging Developers About User Privacy. In Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS).

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Mohammad Tahaei, Kami Vaniea (2021). Code-Level Dark Patterns: Exploring Ad~Networks' Misleading Code Samples with Negative Consequences for Users. In ``What Can CHI Do About Dark Patterns?’’ Workshop at CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘21).

Mohammad Tahaei, Alisa Frik, Kami Vaniea (2021). Privacy Champions in Software Teams: Understanding Their Motivations, Strategies, and Challenges. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Mohammad Tahaei, Kami Vaniea, Konstantin Beznosov, Maria K. Wolters (2021). Security Notifications in Static Analysis Tools: Developers' Attitudes, Comprehension, and Ability to Act on Them. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Mohammad Tahaei, Kami Vaniea (2021). "Developers are Responsible": What Ad Networks Tell Developers About Privacy. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Late Breaking Work.

Mohammad Tahaei, Kami Vaniea, Naomi Saphra (2020). Understanding Privacy-Related Questions on Stack Overflow. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Mohammad Tahaei, Adam Jenkins, Kami Vaniea, Maria K. Wolters (2019). "I Don't Know Too Much About It": On the Security Mindsets of Computer Science Students. In Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in SecuriTy (STAST).

Mohammad Tahaei, Kami Vaniea (2019). A Survey on Developer-Centred Security. In European Workshop on Usable Security (EuroUSEC) co-located with The IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&PW).

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