Sebastian Zimmeck
Information Privacy & Security
Science Tower 655, 265 Church Street, Middletown, CT 06459-0128
privacy-tech-lab
Google Scholar
Work
2018+
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Wesleyan University
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
2016-2018
Institute for Software Research, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Postdoctoral Associate
2012-2016
Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
Research Assistant
2011-2013
Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, University of California
Google Research Fellow
2006-2009
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Attorney at Law
Education
2012-2016
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Columbia University
PhD (Computer Science)
Doctoral thesis advisor: Steven M. Bellovin
2009-2011
Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, Columbia University
MS (Computer Science)
2005-2006
Berkeley School of Law, University of California
LLM (Master of Laws)
2003-2008
University of Kiel School of Law, Germany
PhD (Law)
Doctoral thesis advisor: Andreas Hoyer
2003
University of Kiel School of Law, Germany
JD (First State Examination)
Papers
All Peer-reviewed, ◊ Wesleyan Student, ‡ Equal Contributor, ∥ Poster or Short Paper
P23
Website Data Transparency in the Browser
Sebastian Zimmeck, Daniel Goldelman ◊, Owen Kaplan ◊, Logan Brown ◊, Justin Casler ◊, Judeley Jean-Charles ◊, Joe Champeau ◊ and Hamza Harkous
24th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
Bristol, UK and Online Event, July 2024
P22
Generalizable Active Privacy Choice: Designing a Graphical User Interface for Global Privacy Control
Sebastian Zimmeck, Eliza Kuller ◊, Chunyue Ma ◊, Bella Tassone ◊ and Joe Champeau ◊
24th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
Bristol, UK and Online Event, July 2024
P21
Usability and Enforceability of Global Privacy Control
Sebastian Zimmeck, Oliver Wang ◊, Kuba Alicki ◊, Jocelyn Wang ◊ and Sophie Eng ◊
23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
Lausanne, Switzerland and Online Event, July 2023
P20
PrivacyFlash Pro: Automating Privacy Policy Generation for Mobile Apps
Sebastian Zimmeck, Rafael Goldstein ◊ and David Baraka ◊
28th Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
Online Event, February 2021
P19
Standardizing and Implementing Do Not Sell ∥
Sebastian Zimmeck and Kuba Alicki ◊
19th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES)
Online Event, November 2020
P18
MAPS: Scaling Privacy Compliance Analysis to a Million Apps
Sebastian Zimmeck ‡, Peter Story ‡, Abhilasha Ravichander, Daniel Smullen, Ziqi Wang, Joel Reidenberg, N. Cameron Russell and Norman Sadeh
19th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
Stockholm, Sweden, July 2019
P17
Natural Language Processing for Mobile App Privacy Compliance
Peter Story ‡, Sebastian Zimmeck ‡, Abhilasha Ravichander, Daniel Smullen, Ziqi Wang, Joel Reidenberg, N. Cameron Russell and Norman Sadeh
AAAI 2019 Spring Symposium on Privacy-Enhancing Artificial Intelligence and Language Technologies (PAL)
Palo Alto, CA, March 2019
P16
Analyzing Privacy Policies at Scale: From Crowdsourcing to Automated Annotations
Shomir Wilson, Florian Schaub, Frederick Liu, Kanthashree Mysore Sathyendra, Daniel Smullen, Sebastian Zimmeck, Rohan Ramanath, Peter Story, Fei Liu, Norman Sadeh and Noah A. Smith
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), August 2018
P15
Which Apps have Privacy Policies?
Peter Story, Sebastian Zimmeck and Norman Sadeh
6th Annual Privacy Forum (APF)
Barcelona, Spain, June 2018
Also Published at:
Tech Report, CMU-ISR-18-100
Pittsburgh, PA, June 2018
P14
Identifying the Provision of Choices in Privacy Policy Text ∥
Kanthashree Mysore Sathyendra, Shomir Wilson, Florian Schaub, Sebastian Zimmeck and Norman Sadeh
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2017
P13
A Privacy Analysis of Cross-device Tracking
Sebastian Zimmeck, Jie S. Li, Hyungtae Kim, Steven M. Bellovin and Tony Jebara
26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
Vancouver, Canada, August 2017
P12
Mobile App Privacy Compliance: Automated Technology to Help Regulators, App Stores and Developers ∥
Sebastian Zimmeck, Ziqi Wang, Lieyong Zou, Roger Iyengar, Bin Liu, Florian Schaub, Shomir Wilson, Norman Sadeh, Steven M. Bellovin and Joel Reidenberg
13th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS)
Santa Clara, CA, July 2017
P11
Automated Analysis of Privacy Requirements for Mobile Apps
Sebastian Zimmeck, Ziqi Wang, Lieyong Zou, Roger Iyengar, Bin Liu, Florian Schaub, Shomir Wilson, Norman Sadeh, Steven M. Bellovin and Joel Reidenberg
24th Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
San Diego, CA, February 2017
Also Published at:
AAAI 2016 Fall Symposium on Privacy and Language Technologies (PLT)
Arlington, VA, November 2016
P10
The Creation and Analysis of a Website Privacy Policy Corpus
Shomir Wilson, Florian Schaub, Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Frederick Liu, Sushain Cherivirala, Pedro Giovanni Leon, Mads Schaarup Andersen, Sebastian Zimmeck, Kanthashree Mysore Sathyendra, N. Cameron Russell, Thomas B. Norton, Eduard Hovy, Joel Reidenberg and Norman Sadeh
54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Berlin, Germany, August 2016
P09
Demystifying Privacy Policies with Language Technologies: Progress and Challenges
Shomir Wilson, Florian Schaub, Aswarth Dara, Sushain K. Cherivirala, Sebastian Zimmeck, Mads Schaarup Andersen, Pedro Giovanni Leon, Eduard Hovy and Norman Sadeh
LREC 1st Workshop on Text Analytics for Cybersecurity and Online Safety 2016 (TA-COS)
Portorož, Slovenia, May 2016
P08
“I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints.” - Revealing the Demographics of Location Data
Chris Riederer, Sebastian Zimmeck, Coralie Phanord, Augustin Chaintreau and Steven M. Bellovin
3rd ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN)
Palo Alto, CA, November 2015
Also Published at:
9th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
Palo Alto, CA, July 2015
P07
Privee: An Architecture for Automatically Analyzing Web Privacy Policies
Sebastian Zimmeck and Steven M. Bellovin
23rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
San Diego, CA, August 2014
P06
When Enough is Enough: Location Tracking, Mosaic Theory, and Machine Learning
Steven M. Bellovin, Renée M. Hutchins, Tony Jebara and Sebastian Zimmeck
8 N.Y.U. J.L. Liberty, 556 (2014)
P05
The Information Privacy Law of Web Applications and Cloud Computing
Sebastian Zimmeck
29 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J. 451 (2013)
P04
A Game-theoretic Model for Reasonable Royalty Calculation
Sebastian Zimmeck
22 Alb. L.J. Sci. & Tech. 357 (2012)
P03
Use of Functional Claim Elements for Patenting Computer Programs
Sebastian Zimmeck
12 J. High Tech. L. 168 (2011)
P02
Patent Eligibility of Programming Languages and Tools
Sebastian Zimmeck
13 Tul. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 133 (2010)
P01
Grundlagen der Nutzungsrechtsübertragung an Urheberrechtlich Geschützten Computerprogrammen durch den Lizenznehmer
Sebastian Zimmeck
1 ZGE 324 (2009)
Under Review
UR04
Websites’ Global Privacy Control Compliance at Scale and over Time
Kate Hausladen ◊, Oliver Wang ◊, Sophie Eng ◊, Jocelyn Wang ◊, Francisca Wijaya ◊, Matt May ◊ and Sebastian Zimmeck
Under Review at 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security - Advanced to Second Round of Review)
UR03
From Ad Identifiers to Global Privacy Control: The Status Quo and Future of Opting Out of Ad Tracking on Android
Sebastian Zimmeck, Nishant Aggarwal ◊, Zachary Liu ◊ and Konrad Kollnig
Under Review at 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security - Advanced to Second Round of Review)
UR02
Analyzing the Goals of US Election Ads on Social Networks
Markus Neumann, Sebastian Zimmeck, Jielu Yao, Erika Franklin Fowler, Michael Franz, Breeze Floyd and Travis Nelson Ridout
Under Review at The Web Conference 2025 (WWW - Under Review)
UR01
Comparable 2022 General Election Advertising Datasets from Meta and Google
Meiqing Zhang, Furkan Cakmak, Markus Neumann, Sebastian Zimmeck, Pavel Oleinikov, Jielu Yao, Harry Yu ◊, Aleks Jacewicz ◊, Isabella Tassone ◊, Breeze Floyd, Laura Baum, Mike Franz, Travis Ridout and Erika Franklin Fowler
Nature Scientific Data (Under Review)
Web Posts
WP23
Letter to CA Governor Gavin Newsom in Support of CA A.B. 3048
Sebastian Zimmeck
September 19, 2024
WP22
Coalition Letter in Support of CA A.B. 3048
Accountable Tech, Brave Software, California Public Interest Research Group, Center for Democracy & Technology, Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Federation of America, Consumer Reports, Digital Content Next, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Don Marti, Robin Berjon and Sebastian Zimmeck
March 26, 2024
WP21
Global Privacy Control (GPC) Explainer
Aram Zucker-Scharff, Justin Brookman and Sebastian Zimmeck
January 25, 2024
WP20
Global Privacy Control application for inclusion in Colorado’s UOOM registry
Consumer Reports, DuckDuckGo, Robin Berjon, Raptive, Digital Content Next and Sebastian Zimmeck
November 6, 2023
WP19
Op-ed: We need a federal privacy law. Here’s why.
Sebastian Zimmeck
Hartford Courant
May 21, 2023
WP18
Global Privacy Control (GPC) Draft W3C Specification
Sebastian Zimmeck, Peter Snyder, Justin Brookman and Aram Zucker-Scharff
World Wide Web Consortium
April 20, 2023
WP17
Pre-Rulemaking Considerations for the Colorado Privacy Act, Part 2
Sebastian Zimmeck
January 7, 2023
WP16
How to Implement Global Privacy Control (GPC) for Publishers
Aram Zucker-Scharff and Sebastian Zimmeck
September 14, 2022
WP15
Comment on the Proposed Regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020
Sebastian Zimmeck
August 21, 2022
WP14
Pre-Rulemaking Considerations for the Colorado Privacy Act
Sebastian Zimmeck
July 4, 2022
WP13
Improving Internet Privacy with Global Privacy Control (GPC)
5th NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Principal Investigator Meeting (2022 SaTC PI Meeting), Arlington, VA
Sebastian Zimmeck
June 1-2, 2022
WP12
The Data Rights Protocol: Threading Privacy Rights into the Internet
Sebastian Zimmeck
MIT Computational Law Report
January 18, 2022
WP11
Data Rights Protocol and Global Privacy Control
Sebastian Zimmeck
Consumer Reports Digital Lab Blog
January 13, 2022
WP10
Comment on the Proposed Rulemaking under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 (Proceeding No. 01-21)
Sebastian Zimmeck
November 8, 2021
WP09
Opting Out May Not Prevent Websites From Collecting Your Data
Sebastian Zimmeck
Medium
July 17, 2021
WP08
Protect Your Online Privacy with Global Privacy Control (GPC)
Sebastian Zimmeck
Medium
October 24, 2020
WP07
The Privacy of COVID-19 Apps - Reopening Alphaville
Sebastian Zimmeck
The Startup (Medium)
May 18, 2020
WP06
The CCPA is here! Now what?
Sebastian Zimmeck
Dev.to and The Startup (Medium)
January 8, 2020
WP05
Compliance Traceability: Privacy Policies as Software Development Artifacts
Open Day for Privacy, Usability, and Transparency (PUT), Stockholm, Sweden
Sebastian Zimmeck, Peter Story, Rafael Goldstein, David Baraka, Shaoyan Li, Yuanyuan Feng and Norman Sadeh
July 15, 2019
WP04
How Mobile App Permissions (Don’t) Protect Privacy
Sebastian Zimmeck
The Startup (Medium)
June 6, 2019
WP03
Social Debt: Why Software Developers Should Think Beyond Tech
Sebastian Zimmeck
Medium
January 20, 2019
WP02
Towards Automatic Classification of Privacy Policy Text
Frederick Liu, Shomir Wilson, Peter Story, Sebastian Zimmeck and Norman Sadeh
Tech Report, CMU-ISR-17-118R, CMU-LTI-17-010, Pittsburgh, PA
June 2018
WP01
The Galaxy Nexus: Still Around After All These Years
Sebastian Zimmeck
Medium
May 27, 2018
Doctoral Theses
DT02
Using Machine Learning to Improve Internet Privacy
Sebastian Zimmeck
Columbia University Academic Commons
New York, NY, March 2017
DT01
Die Reichweite des Lebensrechts im technologischen Zeitalter
Sebastian Zimmeck
Nomos, Kieler Rechtswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen (NF) 57
Baden-Baden, 2009
Talks
T54
Privacy Preference Signals and Global Privacy Control
- November 26, 2024, Guest Lecture in Sepideh Ghanavati’s COS 435/535 - Information Privacy Engineering, University of Maine, Online
T53
How General Should Privacy Assistants Be?
- November 7, 2024, Google, Sunnyvale
T52
Website Data Transparency in the Browser
- July 18, 2024, 24th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
T51
Birds of a Feather Session: Are you not entertained? How to make privacy more fun!
- July 17, 2024, 24th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
T50
Generalizable Active Privacy Choice: Designing a Graphical User Interface for Global Privacy Control
- September 5, 2024, Future of Privacy Forum Ad Practices Working Group call, Future of Privacy Forum, Online
- July 16, 2024, 24th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
T49
An Introduction to Global Privacy Control: Best Practices for Implementers
- June 27, 2024, Comcast Monthly Cybersecurity and Privacy Presentation Series, Comcast, Online
T48
From Sci-Fi to Reality: Demystifying AI
- April 18, 2024, WesFest Master Class, Wesleyan University
T47
Privacy Enhancing Technologies and Design Analysis
- March 6, 2024, FTC PrivacyCon 2024, Federal Trade Commission, Online (Panel Discussion)
T46
Colorado Attorney General GPC Fireside Chat
- March 5, 2024, Office of the Colorado Attorney General, Online (Panel Discussion)
T45
Global Privacy Control: Current Challenges and Future Plans
- October 31, 2023, Current Topics in Privacy Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Software and Societal Systems Department, Online
T44
AI 101: The Myths, the Legends, and the Everyday
- October 30, 2023, Community Foundation of Middlesex County, Online
T43
Leveraging Global Privacy Control to Honor Do Not Sell and Share Requests
- August 16, 2023, IAPP Pune, India, Chapter KnowledgeNet Session, Online
T42
Usability and Enforceability of Global Privacy Control
- July 13, 2023, 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Université de Lausanne and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
T41
Birds of a Feather Session: Privacy Preference Signals
- July 13, 2023, 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Université de Lausanne and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
T40
Global Privacy Control: Opting out from Web Tracking with One Click
- May 5, 2023, Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) Luncheon, Wesleyan University
- April 4, 2023, Where We Live, WNPR Connecticut Public Radio (Panel Discussion)
T38
Privacy through Cryptography: Some Good News
- April 1, 2023, Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns - A Roadmap for Internet Privacy, Wesleyan University
T37
Privacy Preference Signals and Global Privacy Control
- March 27, 2023, Guest Lecture in Areins Pelayo’s PHIL 271 - Data, Privacy, and Ethics, Wesleyan University
T36
How we work @ privacytechlab.org
- October 21, 2022, Privacy Enhancing Technologies for the Public Interest Workshop, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering, Boston University
T35
Privacy Pioneer: Automating the Creation of Privacy Labels for Websites
- October 3, 2022, Google, Online
T34
Global Privacy Control: CCPA Enforcement of GPC Opt-Out Signals
- September 13, 2022, OneTrust, Online (Panel Discussion)
T33
Improving Internet Privacy with Global Privacy Control (GPC)
- June 1-2, 2022, 5th NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Principal Investigator Meeting, Arlington, VA (Poster Presentation)
T32
Comments on Global Privacy Control (GPC)
- May 5, 2022, California Privacy Protection Agency Stakeholder Meeting, Online
T31
Emerging State Privacy Laws: Are They Working for Consumers and Businesses?
- March 24, 2022, Privacy + Security Forum, Online (Panel Discussion)
T30
Cryptography for Cryptocurrencies: The Technologies Behind the Blockchain
- February 23, 2022, Guest Lecture in Student Forum ECON 420 - Crypto & Digital Currency: The Future of the Financial Services Industry?, Wesleyan University
T29
Data Rights Summit
- October 19, 2021, Consumer Reports Digital Lab and MIT Media Lab, Online (Panel Discussion)
T28
Deep Fakes in the Age of Misinformation
- March 12, 2021, Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns - Truth (and Lies) in Our Time, Wesleyan University, Online (Panel Discussion Moderator)
T27
ADPC & GPC - User Privacy Signals, Consent Management, and Data-Driven Everything
- March 2, 2022, AdTech & Privacy Forum, Online (Panel Discussion)
T26
Global Opt Out, Right to Cure, Extending Rights to Data that has been Collected or Inferred
- December 20, 2021, Connecticut State Senate, Consumer Data Privacy Working Group, Online
T25
A Primer on Global Privacy Control (GPC)
- February 4, 2021, National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), Technology Platform Call
- December 8, 2020, Northeastern University, Khoury College of Computer Science Talk, Online
- December 3, 2020, UC Davis, Computer Science Colloquium Series, Online
T24
Privacy Law & Innovation Collide: Global Privacy Consent
- January 27, 2021, The Rise of Privacy Tech’s Data Privacy Day 2021, Online (Panel Discussion)
T23
Standardizing and Implementing Do Not Sell
- November 9, 2020, 19th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, Online
T22
“Getting Hacked is Contagious” - National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
- October 8, 2020, SUNY Canton, Online (Panel Discussion)
T21
Data Privacy & Contact Tracing
- July 22, 2020, CT Education Network, Online (Panel Discussion)
T20
Feature Discussion Series on Privacy for iOS with iOS YouTuber Brian Advent
- June 22, 2020, Q&A: Privacy & iOS Development
- June 4, 2020, Why Privacy Matters, How Data Shapes Our Lives & What Developers Can Do
- May 24, 2020, Privacy and Software Development - How to create a Privacy Policy
T19
PrivacyFlash Pro: Generating Privacy Policies from App Code
- March 12, 2021, School Computing and Information Science, University of Maine, Online
- February 24, 2021, 28th Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), Online
T18
Developing Privacy Policies for iOS Apps
- February 24, 2020, iOSoho - New York City’s largest iOS Engineer Meetup, New York, NY
T17
Cryptography Essentials
- February 4, 2020, Guest Lecture in Jim Lipton’s COMP 412 - Blockchain Tutorial, Wesleyan University
T16
What Are You Consenting To? A Panel on Data Privacy and Consent
- November 19, 2019, American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, Wesleyan Chapter, Wesleyan University (Panel Discussion)
T15
Mobile App Tracking: Technologies and Privacy Challenges
- October 31, 2019, Guest Lecture in Paul Schwartz’s 276.32 - Topics in Privacy and Security Law, University of California, Berkeley
T14
Transparency & Notice: Third Parties and Cross-Device Ad Targeting in the Context of the CCPA
- October 30, 2019, Data Protection in the 2020s: Industry Symposium on the CCPA, Samba TV, San Francisco, CA (Panel Discussion)
T13
On Big Data
- October 3, 2019, Financial Economics Study Group, Wesleyan University
T12
MAPS: Scaling Privacy Compliance Analysis to a Million Apps
- July 18, 2019, 19th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- July 9, 2019, Financial Economics Study Group, Wesleyan University
- March 22, 2019, New England Security Day (NESD) 2019, UMass Amherst
T11
Compliance Traceability: Privacy Policies as Software Development Artifacts (Lightning Talk)
- July 15, 2019, Open Day for Privacy, Usability, and Transparency (PUT), Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
T10
Alternative Data
- April 2, 2019, Financial Economics Study Group, Wesleyan University
T09
Social Debt: Why Software Developers Need to Go Beyond Tech
- February 8, 2019, Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) Luncheon, Wesleyan University
T08
A Random Walk Down Silicon Alley
- November 15, 2018, Financial Economics Study Group, Wesleyan University
T07
A Privacy Analysis of Cross-device Tracking
- August 18, 2017, 26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), Vancouver, Canada
- February 2, 2017, Current Topics in Privacy Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University
T06
Mobile App Privacy Compliance: Automated Technology to Help Regulators, App Stores and Developers
- July 12, 2017, 13th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), Santa Clara, CA (Tutorial and Poster Session)
- June 1, 2017, Privacy Law Scholars Conference 2017, University of California, Berkeley
T05
Automated Privacy Requirement Analysis for Mobile Apps
- February 28, 2017, 24th Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA
- January 12, 2017, FTC PrivacyCon 2017, Washington, DC
- November 17, 2016, AAAI 2016 Fall Symposium on Privacy and Language Technologies (PLT), Arlington, VA
- November 16, 2016, Societal Computing Practicum, Carnegie Mellon University
- October 27, 2016, Current Topics in Privacy Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University
T04
Privacy Implications of Machine Learning
- February 24, 2016, Guest Lecture in Steven Bellovin’s COMS W3410 - Computers and Society, Columbia University
T03
Privee: An Architecture for Automatically Analyzing Web Privacy Policies
- August 6, 2015, CUPS Lunchtime Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University
- February 13, 2015, Google PhD Summit, Google, New York, NY (Poster Session Talk)
- December 3, 2014, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University
- September 17, 2014, Privacy Research Group, New York University
- August 20, 2014, 23rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), San Diego, CA
- June 6, 2014, Privacy Law Scholars Conference 2014, University of California, Berkeley
T02
Leveraging Technology to Improve Notice and Choice
- June 27, 2014, Future of Privacy Notice and Choice (FoPNaC), Carnegie Mellon University (Panel Discussion)
T01
When Enough is Enough: Location Tracking, the Fourth Amendment, and Machine Learning
- March 28, 2014, Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Distinguished Speaker Series, Columbia University
Research Team
F24+
36. Ebuka Akubilo ‘25
F24+
35. Anan Afrida ‘26
F24+
34. Patton Yin ‘25
S24+
33. Kelleigh Entrekin ‘25
S24+
32. Francisca Wijaya ‘27
F23+
31. Nate Levinson ‘25
F23+
30. Matt May ‘25
F23+
29. Zachary Liu ‘26
F23-S24
28. Dominik Dadak ‘26
F23+
27. Aleks Jacewicz ‘25
S23+
26. Nishant Aggarwal ‘26
S23
25. Candace Walker ‘26
S23+
24. Harry Yu ‘25
S23
23. Wesley Tan ‘26
F22-S24
22. Kate Hausladen BA/MA ‘24
S22-F23
21. Judeley Jean-Charles ‘24
S22-S24
20. Joe Champeau ‘24
S22-F23
19. Jocelyn Wang ‘24
S22-F23
18. Justin Casler ‘24
S22-S24
17. Sophie Eng ‘25
S21-S24
16. Oliver Wang ‘24
S21-S22
15. Chunyue Ma ‘22
S21-F21
14. Stanley Markman ‘23,
S21
13. Kiryl Beliauski, ‘23
S21-S23
12. Logan Brown ‘23
S21-S24
11. Daniel Goldelman BA/MA ‘24
S21+
10. Bella Tassone BA/MA ‘25
S21-S23
09. Eliza Kuller ‘23
F20-S22
08. Owen Kaplan ‘22
F20
07. Abdallah Salia ‘22
F20-S21
06. Daniel Knopf ‘22
S20-S22
05. Kuba Alicki ‘22
S20
04. Phil Kaelbling ‘22
F19
03. Sarah Jin ‘21
S19-S21
02. David Baraka ‘21
F18-S21
01. Rafael Goldstein ‘21
Thesis Advisor
TA09
Title TBD
Bella Tassone BA/MA ‘25
Spring 2025
TA08
Title TBD
Kelleigh Entrekin ‘25
Spring 2025
TA07
Title TBD
Patton Yin ‘25
Spring 2025
TA06
Title TBD
Harry Yu ‘25
Spring 2025
TA05
Investigating the Current State of CCPA Compliance on the Internet
Kate Hausladen BA/MA ‘24
Spring 2024
TA04
Global Adaptation of Privacy Pioneer: Recommendations for Conducting Cross-Regional Web Privacy Studies
Daniel Goldelman BA/MA ‘24
Spring 2024
TA03
Privacy Choice Mechanisms and the Online Advertising Ecosystem: Can Generalizable Active Privacy Choices and Online Advertising Coexist?
Eliza Kuller ‘23
Spring 2023
TA02
Privacy Pioneer: Creating an Automated Data-Privacy UI for Web Browsers
Owen Kaplan ‘22
Spring 2022
TA01
Don’t Sell Our Data: Exploring CCPA Compliance via Automated Privacy Signal Detection
Kuba Alicki ‘22
Spring 2022
Thesis Reader
TR03
A Comparative Study on Analyses of Browser Fingerprinting
Timothy Stephenson ‘23
Spring 2023
TR02
Fairness & Social Influence Maximization
Schuyler Sloman ‘22
Spring 2022
TR01
All My Friends Are Fake: A Node-By-Node Approach to Social Network Classification
Isaac Jacobs ‘20
Spring 2020
Awards
A13
Google Cloud Research Credits Award - $5,000
Google
2024-2025
A12
Grants in Support of Scholarship - $25,976
Wesleyan University
2023-2024
A11
Collaborative Research: EAGER: Cross-platform Election Advertising Transparency Initiative - $260,201
National Science Foundation
With Erika Franklin-Fowler
2022-2024
A10
Google Research Scholar Award - $60,000
Google
2022-2025
A09
Design, Development, and Testing of a Generalizable Active Privacy Choice Mechanism - $34,856
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
2021-2023
A08
SaTC: CORE: Small: Improving Internet Privacy with Global Privacy Control - $265,614
National Science Foundation
2020-2025
A07
Anil Fernando Grant - $7,250
Anil Fernando Endowment, Wesleyan University
2019-2024
A06
Allbritton Grant for Support of a Faculty Study Group - $1,000
Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, Wesleyan University
With Abigail Hornstein and Karl Boulware
2018
A05
Research Grant - $5,000
Comcast
2015
A04
Community Service Award
Computer Science Department, Columbia University
2014
A03
Graduate Research Assistant Fellowship
Computer Science Department, Columbia University
2012-2016
A02
Research Fellowship
Google and University of California Berkeley, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
2011-2013
A01
Student Fellowship
University of California Berkeley and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2005-2006
Teaching
TE04
COMP 334: Information Security and Privacy
Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2020, Fall 2018
This course explores principles and practical applications of computer security and privacy. Some of the topics covered include static and dynamic code analysis, secure authentication, privacy enhancing technologies, usable privacy and security, and web tracking. It will also touch upon theoretical areas, such as basic cryptographic concepts as well as differential privacy. The course has the objective to provide students with the conceptual knowledge and technical skills to identify and resolve privacy and security issues in the design, development, and evaluation of information systems.
TE03
COMP 333: Software Engineering
Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Software engineering is the application of engineering principles to the software development process. Eliciting requirements from stakeholders, designing the architecture of a program, performing usability studies, and testing a codebase are some of the aspects that elevate program development to software engineering. Focusing on web and mobile apps, students in this course will gain expertise in state-of-the-art frontend, backend, and mobile technologies, as well as related tooling. We will also cover the collaborative organization of software projects, software licensing, software business models, and ethical considerations for professional software engineers.
TE02
COMP 114: How to Talk to Machines
Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019
How do we tell robots and computers how to do what they do? Getting a handle on this question is the goal of this course. Since telling a device how to do something depends a lot on what that device can do, along the way we will learn a bit about what is “in the box.” We will start with the kind of programming one might use to instruct a robot how to interact with the world around it. That will lead us to the Turing machine, a beautiful mathematical model of a computer. We will adapt that model to something that is closer to how most computer systems today are designed. We will end with an introduction to high-level programming, learning the fundamentals of programming in a language such as Python or Java. The goal of the course is to understand not just programming, but how computers are designed, and how those designs are reflected in the way we program them.
TE01
COMP 4xx/5xx: Advanced Information Security and Privacy Research Seminar
Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
In this research seminar students will work together on a research project that is advancing knowledge in information security and privacy. During their work they will not only gain experience in security and privacy, but in web and mobile app engineering as well. Students will also have the opportunity to co-author a paper to be submitted at a top-tier academic security and privacy venue.
Review Service
2024
Communications of the ACM (CACM)
2022
NSF Review Panel Computer Science and Engineering (October) (CISE)
2022
NSF Review Panel Computer Science and Engineering (April/May) (CISE)
2022
NSF Review Panel and Ad Hoc Review Computer Science and Engineering (CISE)
2021
NSF Review Panel Computer Science and Engineering (CISE)
2019
AAAI 2019 Spring Symposium on Privacy-Enhancing Artificial Intelligence and Language Technologies (PAL)
2018
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
2016
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
2015
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
2013
IEEE Security & Privacy (S&P)
2013
20th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
2013
1st ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN)
Wesleyan Service
F23-S24
Admissions Liaison for Division III (Natural Science and Mathematics)
F23-S24
AI Speaker Series Co-organizer
F23
Generative AI Faculty Ambassador
S23
Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns “A Roadmap for Internet Privacy” Organizer
F22-S23
Mathematics & Computer Science Faculty Search Committee Co-chair
F22+
Mathematics & Computer Science Website Coordinator
S22+
Computer Science Undergraduate Club Code_Wes Liaison
F19-S21
Computer Science Advisory Committee (CADCOM) Co-chair
F18+
Computer Science Lecture Series Organizer
F18-S20
Security Advisory Group Member
F18-S20
Library Committee and Science Library Faculty Committee Chair
F18-S20
Financial Economics Faculty Study Group Co-chair
Associations
2024+
Invited Expert
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
2021+
Fellow in Applied Computational Data Analysis
Wesleyan University
2021-2022
Data Rights Protocol Technical Advisors Board Member
Consumer Reports
2020+
Global Privacy Control Group Co-chair and Founder
Global Privacy Control Group
2019-2021
Governance Research in Artificial Intelligence Leadership (GRAIL) Network Member
Center for Democracy and Technology and R Street Institute
2010+
The State Bar of California Member
Inactive Status