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

Facial Recognition Technology: Facial Recognition Technology: A Survey of Policy and Implementation Issues. The report highlights the potential and limitations of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT), noting those tasks for which it seems ready for deployment, those areas where performance obstacles may be overcome by future technological developments or sound operating procedures, and still other issues which appear intractable. Its concern with efficacy extends to ethical considerations. With support from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the NYU Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response.

TrackMeNot: Privacy Through Obfuscation. A Firefox extension to protect web-search against identification, surveillance, and profiling. Version 0.6.0991 now available.

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

PORTIA: Sensitive Information in a Wired World (press release).

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

Talk on Contextual Integrity as a Normative Guide for Privacy (download ppt), School of Information, UC Berkeley April 2, 2008.

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.

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

M. Flanagan, D. Howe, and H. Nissenbaum, Embodying Values in Technology: Theory and Practice (pdf). In Information Technology and Moral Philosophy Jeroen van den Hoven and John Weckert (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 322-353.

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.

H. Nissenbaum, Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. Forthcoming: December, 2009.

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