Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality
Alessandro Acquisti, Associate Professor of Information Technology
In this talk, I will link two of my favorite research streams: (1) the behavioral economics of privacy, and (2) mining of data from online social networks for privacy and security risks associated with online disclosures. I will highlight how research in behavioral economics can help us make sense of apparent inconsistencies in privacy (and security) decision-making and will present results from a variety of experiments conducted at Carnegie Mellon University. Then I will discuss the technical feasibility and privacy implications of combining publicly available Web 2.0 images with off-the-shelf face recognition technology, for the purpose of large-scale, automated individual re-identification. Combined, the results highlight the behavioral, technological, and legal issues raised by the convergence of mining technologies and online social networks and illuminate the future of privacy in an augmented reality world.
Alessandro Acquisti, Associate Professor of Information Technology
Alessandro Acquisti is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Public Policy at the Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, and the co-director of the CMU Center for Behavioral Decision Research (CBDR). Alessandro has been the recipient of many awards, and his research on privacy has been published in leading journals across multiple disciplines and featured in media outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, CNN, and NPR. His 2009 study on the predictability of Social Security numbers contributed to the change in the assignment scheme of SSNs that was announced in 2011 by the US Social Security Administration.
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author = {Alessandro Acquisti},
title = {Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality},
booktitle = {20th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 11)},
year = {2011},
address = {San Francisco, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-security-11/privacy-age-augmented-reality},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = aug
}