I School assistant professor Deirdre Mulligan is presenting her privacy research in Jerusalem this week at the 32nd International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners.
This year's conference, entitled “Privacy: Generations,” will explore the unsettling effect on privacy of a new generation of technologies and the shifting perceptions of privacy among a new generation of users, both leading inevitably to a new generation of governance.
At the conference, Mulligan will be discussing the role of an organization's chief privacy officer (CPO). Mulligan researches information privacy and security, with an emphasis on social and organizational norms and the ways that privacy policy decisions can be embedded in — or even displaced by — the design of the technology itself.
Two alumni of the school's doctoral program are also presenting at the conference: Alessandro Acquisti (Ph.D. 2003) and danah boyd (Ph.D. 2008).
Acquisti is now an associate professor of information technology and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, where he studies how people make decisions about electronic privacy and security, using tools from economics and psychology. At the conference, he is presenting on the role of consent in privacy and data protection law and practice.
I School alumna danah boyd is now a social media researcher at Microsoft Research and an affiliate of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the intersection of youth practices and social media. She will be delivering the conference's closing keynote address, “The future of privacy: How privacy norms can inform regulation.”
