HELEN NISSENBAUM

Research Projects:

Project Title: Privads: Targeting Without Tracking
Grant Info: Portia, Project Presidio
NYU Researchers: Helen Nissenbaum (Project Director), Solon Barocas (Research Assistant), and Vincent Toubiana (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
Research Partners: Arvind Narayanan (Stanford University), Dan Boneh (Stanford University)

Project Title: Facial Recognition Technology: A Survey of Policy and Implementation Issues (download pdf)
Grant Info: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, NYU Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response
NYU Researchers: Helen Nissenbaum (Project Director), Solon Barocas (Research Assistant), Travis Hall (Research Assistant), and John Fanning (Research Assistant)
Research Partners: Lucas Introna (Lancaster University)

Project Title: Collaborative Research: Values-at-Play - Integrating Social Factors into Design
Grant Info: NSF, Science of Design, CNS 0613893 September 2006
NYU Researchers: Helen Nissenbaum (Principal Investigator), Ricki Goldman (Research Associate), JoEllen Fisherkeller (Research Associate), Dorothy Bennett (Research Associate), Alice Marwick (Research Assistant), Jonathan Belman (Research Assistant)
Research Partners: Mary Flanagan (Dartmouth)
Advisory Board: Katie Salen (Parsons), Frank Lantz (area/code), Celia Pearce (Georgia Tech), Tracy Fullerton (USC), Philip Brey (University of Twente)

Project Title: Collaborative Research: PORTIA - Sensitive Information in a
Wired World
Grant Info: NSF, Information Technology Research Program
NYU Researchers: Helen Nissenbaum (Principal Investigator), Solon Barocas (Research Assistant)
Research Partners: Dan Boneh (Stanford University), Joan Feigenbaum (Yale University), Stephanie Forrest (University of New Mexico), Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University), Ravi Kannan (Yale University), John Mitchell (Stanford University), Rajeev Motwani (Stanford University), Avi Silberschatz (Yale University), Rebecca Wright (Rutgers University), Jack Balkin (Yale Law School), Cynthia Dwork (Microsoft Research), Sam Hawala (US Census Bureau), Brian LaMacchia (Microsoft Corporation), Kevin McCurley (Google), Perry Miller (Yale Center for Medical Informatics), John Morris (Center for Democracy and Technology), Tom Pageler (Secret Service, San Francisco Electronic Crimes Unit), Marc Rotenberg (Electronic Privacy Information Center), Tomas Sander (HP Trust, Security, and Privacy Group), Alejandro Schaffer (DHHS/National Institutes of Health), Dan Schutzer (Citigroup)

Project Title: TrackMeNot - Privacy Through Obfuscation, A Firefox extension to protect web-search privacy
Grant Info: Collaborative Research: PORTIA - Sensitive Information in a Wired World, NSF, Information Technology Research Program
NYU Researchers: Helen Nissenbaum (Principal Investigator), Daniel Howe (Research Assistant), John Fanning (Research Assistant)
Research Partners: Vincent Toubiana (Project Collaborator)

Project Title: Project Presidio - Collaborative Policies and Assured Information Sharing
Grant Info: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Program of the University
Research Initiative (MURI)
NYU Researchers: Helen Nissenbaum (Principal Investigator)
Research Partners: Dan Boneh (Stanford University), Anupam Datta (CMU), Joe Hellerstein (UC Berkeley), John C. Mitchell (Stanford University), Tim Roughgarden (Stanford University), Andre Scedrov (University of Pennsylvania), Hovav Shacham (UCSD), Vitaly Shmatikov (UT Austin), Dawn Song (Berkeley), Brent Waters (SRI / UT Austin)