Privacy

A large wall covered with security cameras, with two women looking at it.
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While privacy is not one of my primary research interests, I do have some past and ongoing projects on it, particularly with regards to fair privacy and AI to help people make privacy-related decisions.

Fair Privacy

Our fair privacy paper examines what is involved in making sure that privacy guarantees are provided in a fair and equitable manner, that vulnerable people are not at greater risk of privacy failures

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2018

Michael D. Ekstrand, Rezvan Joshaghani, and Hoda Mehrpouyan. 2018. Privacy for All: Ensuring Fair and Equitable Privacy Protections. In Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAT* 2018). PMLR, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 81:35–47. Acceptance rate: 24%. Cited 87 times. Cited 67 times.

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2018

Rezvan Joshaghani, Michael D. Ekstrand, Bart Knijnenburg, and Hoda Mehrpouyan. 2018. Do Different Groups Have Comparable Privacy Tradeoffs?. In Moving Beyond a ‘One-Size Fits All’ Approach: Exploring Individual Differences in Privacy, a workshop at CHI 2018. NSF PAR 10222636. Cited 4 times. Cited 4 times.

Privacy Decision-Making

This line of work examines how people make privacy decisions and how we might build tools that support them in that process.

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2021

A. K. M. Nuhil Mehdy, Michael D. Ekstrand, Bart Knijnenburg, and Hoda Mehrpouyan. 2021. Privacy as a Planned Behavior: Effects of Situational Factors on Privacy Perceptions and Plans. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ’21). ACM. DOI 10.1145/3450613.3456829. arXiv:2104.11847 [cs.SI]. NSF PAR 10223377. Acceptance rate: 23%. Cited 18 times. Cited 11 times.