Carnegie Mellon University

Data Privacy Day

FRIDAY, January 27, 2023

An event celebrating International Data Privacy Day. The event will take place in Simmons Auditorium A at Tepper School of Business on the Carnegie Mellon campus.

About Data Privacy Day

Join us on Friday, January 27, 2023 for our Privacy Day 2023 event at Carnegie Mellon University. CMU is celebrating the International Data Privacy Day by presenting privacy research and practical advice on protecting privacy online. CMU's Privacy Day event will take place from 11am-1pm in Simmons Auditorium A at the Tepper School of Business. The event is open to the public, and no registration is required.

Data Privacy Day is an international effort to empower and educate people to protect their privacy and control their digital footprint. For more information, please visit StaySafeOnline.org.

Questions? Email h..@andrew.cmu.edu.

Organizers:
  • Hana Habib
  • Swadhin Routray
  • Aadyaa Maddi

Schedule of Events

Jan 27, 2023

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Privacy Clinic
Learn how to protect your privacy.

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Privacy Research Poster Session
Learn more about current privacy research at CMU.

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Lunch
Free lunch provided while you learn about privacy.

All events take place at the Simmons Auditorium A at Tepper School of Business on the Carnegie Mellon campus. Please consult the campus map to find your way around.

Privacy Clinic

Learn how to protect your privacy

Privacy Day will feature a Privacy Clinic. Come to our Privacy Clinic to learn how to protect your privacy. CMU’s information privacy and security students will educate you and answer your questions about privacy risks and remedies concerning many topics, including:

  • Useful open-source browser extensions (Ally Nisenoff)
  • Creating strong passwords (Sriram Viswanathan, Geetika Gopi)
  • How to set up and maintain social media privacy settings (Ellie Young)
  • Privacy Illustrated (Katie Earles)
  • Information Security Office (Charles Edmond)
  • Private browsing (Eman Alashwali)
  • Public Wifi Safety Tips (Harish Balaji)

Refreshments will be provided.

Privacy Research Poster Session

Privacy Research at Carnegie Mellon University

Visit the poster session to learn more about privacy research at Carnegie Mellon University and meet privacy researchers and students. Refreshments will be provided.

The following research projects will be presented:

  • A US-UK Evaluation of Consent Management Platform Cookie Consent Interfaces (Elijah Bouma-Sims, Megan Li, Yanzi Lin, Adia Sakura-Lemessy, Alexandra Nisenoff, Ellie Young, Eleanor Birrell, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Hana Habib)
  • Pruning Has A Disparate Impact on Model Accuracy (Cuong Tran, Ferdinando Fioretto, Jung-Eun Kim, Rakshit Naidu)
  • Analyzing the Effectiveness of Ad-tech Opt-out Tools (Sriram Viswanathan, Geetika Gopi, Andrew Berry, Pauline Mevs, Aadyaa Maddi)
  • A Privacy Infrastructure for Notice & Choice in the Internet of Things (Norman Sadeh, Yuanyuan Feng, Justin Donnell, Gaurav Misra)
  • Privacy Label Wiz: A Tool to Help iOS App Developers Create Accurate Privacy Labels (Jack Gardner, Yuanyuan Feng, Akshath Jain, Norman Sadeh)
  • Fighting the Fog: Evaluating the Clarity of Privacy Disclosures in the Age of CCPA (Rex Chen, Fei Fang, Thomas Norton, Aleecia M. McDonald, Norman Sadeh)
  • Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare, an Empirical Investigation (Eduardo Abraham Schnadower Mustri, Idris Adjerid, Alessandro Acquisti)
  • Privacy Perceptions and Regulation of Unmanned Aerial Systems (David Mberingabo, Emma Rogers, Luka Begiashvili and Kristina Reimer)

Photos 


In The Past

CMU Privacy Day is an annual event. Browse the programs of recent years.

CMU Privacy Day Is Supported By

MSIT – Privacy Engineering

School of Computer Science

Heinz College

Cylab Usable Privacy and Security

CyLab