| Aug 01, 2024 | Our (Amogh Pradeep[1], Alvaro Feal, David Choffnes, and Woodrow Hartzog) paper ``Gig Work at What Cost?: Exploring Privacy Risks of Gig Work Platform Participation in the U.S.’’ has been accepted to appear in PETS 2025! |
| Jul 17, 2024 | Thesis defended! Thank you to all who came – and of course eternal thanks to my wonderful advisors and committee. |
| May 01, 2024 | Looking forward to seeing international colleagues in May at CHI’24 (for a workshop I’m co-running) in Honolulu, ConPro’24 in San Francisco, and PLSC’24 in Washington, D.C. Lots to present and lots to learn from others – see you there! |
| Jan 01, 2024 | Calling all dark patterns (and adjacent) scholars: join our CHI’24 workshop, Mobilizing Research and Regulatory Action on Dark Patterns and Deceptive Design Practices! The CFP for short position papers and general attendance statements is open, with submissions due February 14, 2024 AoE. The workshop will be delivered in hybrid format, with in-person attendees in Honolulu for the main CHI conference. |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Successfully proposed my thesis last week, so I’m now happy to share that I’ll be joining the Maastricht University Law and Tech lab as an Assistant Professor in CS and Law in July 2024! Thank you to my wonderful committee for thoughtful feedback and all who attended. |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Thankful to have attended PrivaCI on an NSF Student Travel Grant. I learned so much from the brilliant work presented; thank you to the organizers for a fantastic event! |
| Aug 28, 2023 | Wrapped up my internship at MPI-SP and left Germany! Looking forward to continuing our project remotely and being back home in Boston. |
| Jul 15, 2023 | Attended my first PETS in beautiful Lausanne. I’m looking forward to the upcoming year as a Program Committee member for PETS’24. |
| Jun 01, 2023 | Thrilled to be at PLSC’23 – thank you to session participants on great feedback on our paper on the evidentiary requirements for dark patterns. Looking forward to the rest of the sessions. |
| May 01, 2023 | Started work in Yixin Zou’s new Human-Centered Security and Privacy group at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP). It’s gonna be a great summer! |
| Apr 28, 2023 | What a wonderful, first in-person CHI I had! It was great to meet and have such amazing conversations with the HCI research community. In the dark patterns space, many awesome papers were presented, and we held a fruitful SIG and Panel. Thank you to all who came to the events; to keep the conversations going, come join the DPs research community on Slack! |
| Mar 10, 2023 | Our (Woody Hartzog, Evan Selinger, and myself) paper, “Privacy Nicks: How the Law Normalizes Surveillance,” will be published in the 2024 volume of the Washington University Law Review. Preprint now available on SSRN. |
| Mar 10, 2023 | Now that all the travel documents are squared away, I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be working with Yixin Zou as a research intern this summer in the new Human-Centered Security and Privacy group at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP). Looking forward to experiencing the EU’s data subject rights first-hand and working with wonderful people in Europe. Please send me life in Germany tips and recomemndations! |
| Jan 30, 2023 | More exciting CHI’2023 news – a dark patterns panel (Emerging Transdisciplinary Perspectives to Confront Dark Patterns) and SIG event (Dark Patterns and the Emerging Threats of Deceptive Design Practices) with many wonderful members of the dark patterns research community will be held in Hamburg this April! Come visit the panel on Monday, April 24 from 16:35-18:00, and join our SIG on Tuesday, April 25 from 16:35-18:00. More info in the CHI program. |
| Jan 16, 2023 | We’re headed to Hamburg - our (Monica Kowalcyzk, Daniel Dubois, Dave Choffnes, Woody Hartzog, Christo Wilson, and myself) paper Understanding Dark Patterns in Home IoT Devices was accepted to CHI’2023! Preprint and more information to come, so stay posted. |
| Dec 06, 2022 | Grateful to be awarded a scholarship to attend the 2023 Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) conference. I’d originally been ready to attend back in March 2020, but the world shut down a week before the conference. Hope to see colleagues there in March next year. |
| Dec 02, 2022 | A few of the researchers from the ProperData center have just launched a new podcast, ‘Nothing to Hide’, which shares the latest privacy research in digestible format for everyone (not just academics) to benefit from new findings. Tune in on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify, and learn more at our website! |
| Nov 11, 2022 | So much gratitude all the detailed feedback for our paper in a lightning talk at the Northeast Privacy Scholars Workshop. Especial thanks to commentator Daniel Susser and the organizers for a wonderful day of learning. |
| Nov 08, 2022 | For those who weren’t able to catch the CSLaw talk due to a last-minute schedule change, a lightly annotated presentation deck is available here. |
| Nov 02, 2022 | Thank you to fantastic moderators Gorana and Minhee for having me in the dark patterns panel at PrivacyCon, and to the great folks organizing the second ACM CSLaw. It was lovely to learn from so many talks spanning multiple topics and to present our work as well. Up next: workshopping a paper in a lightning session at the Northeast Privacy Scholars Workshop 11/11. |
| Oct 31, 2022 | It’s a busy week – catch me speaking at the FTC’s PrivacyCon at 3:25PM EST Tuesday 11/1, and at CSLaw 3:45PM EST Wednesday 11/2. |
| Sep 29, 2022 | Kentrell Owens gave an awesome presentation on our user study on deceptive design in voice assistants in Karlsruhe at EuroUSEC’22. |
| Sep 28, 2022 | I’ll be presenting our dark patterns in modalities work in a panel of fellow UX scholars at the FTC’s PrivacyCon.Colleagues from the ProperData project will share work on data broker bias, VR privacy, and voice assistant profiling at PrivacyCon as well. |
| Sep 07, 2022 | An author preprint of our (Kentrell Owens, Pardis Emami-Naeini, Dave Choffnes, Yoshi Kohno, Franzi Roesner, and myself) user study on deceptive design in voice assistants for the 2022 European Symposium on Usable Security is available here! Keep an eye out for Kentrell’s presentation in Karlsruhe, Germany later this month. |
| Aug 26, 2022 | Today was my final day interning with the wonderful Governance, Risk, Compliance and Privacy team at Vimeo – deeply grateful for this opportunity and experience. |
| Aug 15, 2022 | An author preprint of our (Cristiana Santos, Irene Kamara, and myself) paper on dark patterns harms and opportunities for redress for the 2nd ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law is now available here. |
| Jul 07, 2022 | Our (Kentrell Owens, Pardis Emami-Naeini, Dave Choffnes, Yoshi Kohno, Franzi Roesner, and myself) user study on deceptive design in voice assistants was accepted to the 2022 European Symposium on Usable Security! Keep an eye out for it in Karlsruhe, Germany this September. |
| Jun 28, 2022 | Our (Cristiana Santos, Irene Kamara, and myself) paper on dark patterns harms and opportunities for redress was accepted to the 2nd ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law! More news soon – looking forward to presenting our case study and learnings in Washington, D.C. this November. |
| Jun 07, 2022 | Excited to start a summer internship at Vimeo, where I’ll be on the Governance, Risk, Compliance and Privacy team. |
| Jun 03, 2022 | Had a wonderful time volunteering and presenting a draft at my first in-person PLSC22. Here’s to many more years of great discussions and learning from this brilliant community! |
| Apr 23, 2022 | Many thanks to the Computing Research Association for allowing me to attend the 2022 Grad Cohort for Women in New Orleans. Lovely to learn from so many amazing women in CS research and meet peers in person! |
| Oct 25, 2021 | I presented our work on comparative work on dark patterns in modalities at CSCW’21 (despite some virtual conference technical difficulties), following attendance at an awesome workshop on privacy, design, and IoT the day before. |
| Sep 08, 2021 | Completed a wonderful summer internship with Common Sense Media’s Privacy Program team. 🌴 |
| Jun 01, 2021 | Our Seton Hall Law Review article on privacy, pandemic, and problems is now available in Vol. 51. Iss. 5. |
| May 08, 2021 | 210508_chidpworkshop |
| Apr 29, 2021 | 210429_ftcpanel |
| Apr 01, 2021 | Thrilled to learn that fellow ALIGNer Jessica Massie, and the M.S. research assistant I’m working with, Jonathan Chery, have been accepted into the PhD program here in Boston – looking forward to collaborating with you in the fall! |
| Jan 15, 2021 | Woody Hartzog and I wrote a case study for the MIT Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing casebook. We used it ourselves in CY4170 here at NU. |
| Nov 06, 2020 | Thank you to the Seton Hall University Law School for having me (on behalf of my co-authors) on a panel discussing privacy issues in the wake of COVID-19. Please look forward to our article in the Symposium Book next summer. |
| May 04, 2020 | After starting the ALIGN program, in 2017, I finally received my M.S. in Cybersecurity so it’s now official! |
| Jan 15, 2016 | A simple inline announcement with Markdown emoji!   |
| Nov 07, 2015 | A long announcement with details |
| Oct 22, 2015 | A simple inline announcement. |