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Professor, Media, Culture & Communication, Computer Science.
Senior Fellow, Information Law Institute, NYU School of Law.


Projects

TrackMeNot: Privacy Through Obfuscation. A Firefox extension to protect web-search against identification, surveillance, and profiling.

"Personal Data: The Logic of Privacy"
The Economist January 4, 2007

PORTIA: Sensitive Information in a Wired World (press release).
PORTIA at New York University

Colloquium on Information Technology and Society.
Information Law Institute and Department of Media, Culture and Communication.

Journal of Ethics and Information Technology, Co-editor.

Graduate Student Workshop: Values into Computer and Information System Design (VID) Santa Clara University. August 8-16, 2008. Applications (pdf) due January 15 for August, 2008 Workshop.

Values-at-Play: Taking values into consideration in games' design.


Selected Articles

A. Barth, A. Datta, J.C. Mitchell, and H. Nissenbaum, Privacy and Contextual Integrity: Framework and Applications (pdf). Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2006.

M. Flanagan, D. Howe, and H. Nissenbaum, Values in Design: Theory and Practice (pdf). In Information Technology and Moral Philosophy Jeroen van den Hoven and John Weckert (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2006.

Y. Benkler and H. Nissenbaum, Commons-Based Peer Production and Virtue (pdf). Journal of Political Philosophy, 14 (4), 2006: 394-419.

H. Nissenbaum, Privacy as Contextual Integrity (pdf). Washington Law Review, v79 #1, February 04, 2004. 119-158.

H. Nissenbaum, Hackers and the Contested Ontology of Cyberspace (pdf) New Media and Society, v6, #2, 2004. 195-217

H. Nissenbaum, Will Security Enhance Trust Online, or Supplant It? (pdf) In P. Kramer and K. Cook (eds.) Trust and Distrust Within Organizations: Emerging Perspectives, Enduring Questions, Russell Sage Publications, 2004. 155-188.

H. Nissenbaum, New Research Norms for a New Medium (pdf) In The Commodification of Information.  N. Elkin-Koren and N. Netanel (editors) The Hague: Kluwer Academic Press, 2002. 433-457.

L. Introna and H. Nissenbaum. Shaping the Web: Why the Politics of Search Engines Matters (pdf). The Information Society, 16(3):1-17, 2000.


Books:

M. Price and H. Nissenbaum, editors. Academy and the Internet. Peter Lang Publishing Company: 2004. View Cover & Table of Contents.

D. Johnson and H. Nissenbaum, editors. Computers, Ethics, and Social Values. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1995.

H. Nissenbaum, Emotion and Focus. Available from the Center for the Study of Language and Information. 164 p. 1985 Series: (CSLI-LN) Center for the Study of Language and Information. Paper $9.95tx 0-226-12211-5

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