City governments are leveraging digital platforms to increase engagement from the community and make services more accessible to their constituents. These platforms allow citizens …
Users act as valuable ``citizen sensors'' by reporting issues in public spaces enabling cities to address infrastructure problems in a timely manner. Municipal web sites are one …
Talk at the University of Waterloo Cybersecurity Privacy Institute 6th Annual Conference. The talk covers issues around how develoeprs are learning about what privacy entails and …
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 …
Website that explains different common privacy enhancing tools (PETs) and addresses common barriers and misconceptions people have when trying to use them.
List of different sources of statistics that I use for research papers and presentations regarding security, privacy, and phishing.
Consent dialogs are in theory there to provide users with choices. In this study we look at the impact choosing different options has on the cookies set. We also analyze the number …
Twitter accounts are public by default, but Twitter gives the option to create protected accounts, where only approved followers can see their tweets. The publicly visible …
Smart speakers in multi-user spaces, such as Amazon Echos, introduce risks to both owners and anyone sharing the space. They store voice recordings of user requests, and anyone in …
Changing a Twitter account's privacy setting between public and protected changes the visibility of past tweets. By inspecting the privacy setting of more than 100K Twitter users …
Smart speakers interact with anyone that is near them connecting that person to the accounts associated with the speaker's owner. Such access can cause privacy and expectation …
We look at the types of privacy-related advice developers give each other on StackOverflow and how that advice maps to Hoepman’s privacy design strategies. We qualitatively …
Choice framing impacts app developers’ decisions about the settings of mobile advertisements which in turn impacts their users’ privacy. We anticipate that framing and nudging have …
Software development teams are responsible for making and implementing software design decisions that directly impact end-user privacy, a challenging task to do well. Privacy …
Twitter has a relatively simplistic privacy setting of an account being either public or protected, yet many people are still confused about how the settings work. The project …
Smart speakers, such as Amazon Alexa, are increasingly present in multi-user households leading to questions about privacy and consent espeically for those who do not directly own …
We analyse Stack Overflow to understand challenges and confusions developers face while dealing with privacy-related topics. Identified topics include privacy policies, privacy …
People share a wide variety of information on Twitter, including the events in their lives, without understanding the size of their audience. While some of these events can be …