This blog post is the first of a series of posts that aims at bringing some light into the terminological thicket of privacy engineering. The series primarily aims at illustrating the goals and functions of privacy engineering and how they can be implemented through different technologies. To inform this discussion, it will (if only briefly)…
Continue reading →tl;dr: I co-authored a HICCS publication on user preferences regarding control-related aspects of teleoperation in robotaxis. This blog post provides an overview of our study’s results. Background Despite the COVID situation, HICSS ’21 took place at the beginning of January, albeit unfortunately only in a virtual setting and not on Hawaii where it’s usually held….
Continue reading →TL;DR: a transparency-enhancing feature of iOS has revealed data handling practices of a load of app providers and those practices did not sit well with users, even leading to the filing of a class-action lawsuit. In the light of those revelations, I use this blog post to provide a little background on the less-known privacy…
Continue reading →During the last couple years I spent some of my time working in project 5G NetMobil, which we just completed successfully. Sadly, due to SARS-CoV-2, the big live demonstration that was to conclude the project had to be canceled. However, you can learn more about the project’s results in this video on youtube. While the…
Continue reading →Over the last days, there was a lot of fuss about the European version of a Corona tracing app and the ever-escalating dissent between the (now often former) members of PEPP-PT, the umbrella organisation for Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing. If you’re wondering what the whole discussion is all about, the following will bring you up…
Continue reading →Whether and to what extent privacy engineering might be open to automation is a question that I asked myself for quite some time now. Luckily, I finally found some time to dig deeper into the topic during the last weeks. My research resulted in a first paper for which I happily handed in the camera-ready…
Continue reading →With this post, the-privacy-blog.eu is finally officially opened! In the future, I will use this blog to write about my own research regarding privacy and information security, but also about more general, related topics. Actually, I planned to start blogging a lot earlier this year, but, ironically, coming up with a privacy policy that I…
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