Alessandro Acquisti

acquisti @ andrew.cmu.edu
www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti

Associate Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy, Heinz College, CMU

Co-Director, CMU Center for Behavioral Decision Research (CBDR)

Positions

2012-present

Tenured Associate Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy
Heinz College
Carnegie Mellon University.

2009-2012

Associate Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy
Heinz College
Carnegie Mellon University.

2003-2009

Assistant Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy
Heinz College
Carnegie Mellon University.

Spring 2012

Visiting Scientist
Google, Mountain View.

Spring 2012

Visiting Fellow
Becker/Friedman Institute for Research in Economics
University of Chicago.

Fall 2011

Visiting Scholar
Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Harvard University.

Fall 2011

Visiting Researcher
Microsoft Research, New England.

2006-present

Visiting Professor
Department of Economics, Master in eProcurement
University of Rome, Tor Vergata.

Spring 2009, Spring 2011

Visiting Professor
Department of Economics
University of Paris-Sud.

Spring 2009

Visiting Professor
Institute of Computer Science and Social Studies
University of Freiburg.

Education

2003

Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Information Management and Systems
School of Information Management and Systems.
Committee: Hal Varian (chair), John Chuang, Doug Tygar, Florian Zettelmeyer.

2001

M.I.M.S., UC Berkeley, Information Management and Systems
School of Information Management and Systems.

1999

M.Sc., London School of Economics, Econometrics and Mathematical Economics
Department of Economics.

1999

M.Litt., Trinity College Dublin , Economics
Department of Economics. Advisor: Hartmut Lehmann.

1997

Laurea 110/110 cum laude and "Publication worthy" special mention ("Dignita' di pubblicazione"), University of Rome, La Sapienza, Economics and Business
Department of Economics. Advisor: Mario Baldassarri.

Awards, Prizes, and Honors

2012

IAPP Privacy Law Scholars Conference Best Paper Award.

2012

Selected, Future of Privacy Forum's "Privacy Papers for Policy Makers" 2012.

2011-2012

Member, National Academies’ Committee on “Public Response to Alerts and Warnings Using Social Media and Associated Privacy Considerations.”

2012

Visiting Fellow, Becker/Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, University of Chicago.

2012

Nominated, Heinz College Martcia Wade Teaching Award.

2010

Selected, Future of Privacy Forum's "Privacy Papers for Policy Makers" 2010. (Author of 2 out of 6 Leading Papers.)

2010

CIST 2010 Best Student Paper Award ("Privacy and the Control Paradox." Lead author: Laura Brandimarte. Also Runner-up for best paper award).

2010

Teaching Excellence Award, Heinz College School of Information Systems and Management.

2010

Invited Co-chair, Cyber-economics Track, NITRD & White House OSTP’s National Cyber Leap Year Summit. 

2008-present

Ponemon Institute Fellow.

2005

PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.

2005

IBM Best Academic Privacy Faculty Award.

2005

Nominated for Heinz College MISM Program Teaching Excellence Award.

2003

Runner-up, PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.

2003-2007

IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor) Research Fellow.

2002

UC Berkeley Graduate Division Dean's Normative Time Fellowship.

1998-1999

Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Scholarship.

1998

Royal Irish Academy Post-Graduate Award.

1996-1997

Erasmus Scholarship.

1991

Scuola Normale di Pisa pre-university Stage.

 

 

Keynotes and Distinguished Talks

 

2012 Amsterdam Privacy Conference, Amsterdam, October 2012. (Keynote.)

 

2012 Annual Privacy Forum, Cyprus, October 2012. (Keynote.)

 

2012 TED MidAtlantic, University of Maryland College Park, October 2012. (Speaker.)

 

International Association of Privacy Professionals - European Annual Conference, "Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality," London, April 2012. (Keynote)

 

ISchool, UC Berkeley, "An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks," Berkeley, April 2012. (Dean's Lecture)

 

Wall Street Journal, Data Transparency Weekend, New York, April 2012. (Invited speaker.)

 

Stanford CIS Speaker Series, “Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality,” Stanford University, April 2012. (Invited speaker.)

Metricon Workshop (RSA Conference 2012), "Valuating Privacy," San Francisco, February 2012. (Opening Speaker)

 

Conference on the Economics of Privacy, "The Economics of Privacy," University of Colorado, Boulder, December 2011. (Keynote)

 

International Association of Privacy Professionals - Australia and New Zealand - Annual Conference, "Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality," Melbourne, November 2011. (Keynote)

 

SCL 6th Annual Policy Forum: The New Shape of European Internet Regulation, "Privacy, Behavior, and Regulation," London, September 2011. (Keynote)

 

Conference on the Economics of Information and Communication Technologies, "Privacy, Economics, and Behavioral Economics," Paris, October 2011. (Keynote)

Privacy Symposium: Vie Privie & Riseaux Sociaux en Ligne: Nouveaux Comportements et Nouvelles Regulations, "From the Illusion of Control to Discounting the Past: Privacy and Behavior," Universite Paris-Sud, Faculte Jean Monnet, March 2011. (Opening Speaker)

Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP), "Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality," Washington DC, June 2011. (Keynote)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "The Dish: It's All in the Numbers," Koshland Science Museum, Washington DC, January 2010. (Science Café’ Talk) (Video)

Third International Conference on Ethics and Policy of Biometrics and International Data Sharing, "The Economics and Behavioral Economics of Privacy," Hong Kong, January 2010. (Invited speaker)

PrimeLife/IFIP Summer School: Privacy and Identity Management for Life, "Privacy and the Illusion of Control," Helsingborg, Sweden, August 2010. (Keynote)

ZEW Web 2.0 Symposium, "Predicting Social Security Numbers from Public Data," Mannheim, November 2009. (Keynote)

ISchool, UC Berkeley, "Predicting Social Security Numbers from Public Data," Berkeley, October 2009. (Dean's Lecture)

HotPETS (Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium), "Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," Seattle, August 2009. (Keynote)

6th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business (TrustBus), "Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," Linz, Austria, August 2009. (Keynote)

3rd Electronic Health Information and Privacy Conference (EHIPC), "A Behavioral Approach to Privacy Concerns," Ottawa, December 2007. (Keynote)

International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Security (ETRICS), "What can Behavioral Economics Teach us about Privacy?," Freiburg, Germany, June 2006. (Keynote)

 

 

Grants

External Sources

Co-PI. “USE – User Security Behavior,” NSA/CMU Science of Security Lablet (Grant Recommended for Award: $1.9M). With Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Cranor, and Rahul Telang, 2012-2016.

 

Co-PI. “Understanding and Disrupting the Economics of Cybercrime,” US Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Security Research and Development Broad Agency Announcement (Grant Recommended for Award: $3M). With Nicolas Christin (PI), Ross Anderson, and Tyler Moore, 2012-2015.

 

Co-PI. "Census Research Node:  Data Integration, Online Data Collection, and Privacy Protection for Census 2020," National Science Foundation (Grant awarded: $2.2M). With William Eddy (PI), Stephen Fienberg (PI), Joseph B. Kadane, Rebecca Nugent, 2011-2016.

 

PI. "Privacy and Behavior," Rose Foundation – Google Buzz Settlement’s Privacy Grants (Grant awarded: $350,000). With Lorrie Cranor, 2011. (Selected by Settlement Plaintiffs, Defendant, and Judge.)

 

PI. "Nudging Users Towards Privacy," National Science Foundation (Grant awarded: $2.7M). With Lorrie Cranor and Norman Sadeh, 2010-2015.

 

Co-PI. "Usability Analysis of Digital Forensic," Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California (Grant awarded: $100,000). With Lorrie Cranor (PI), Nicolas Christin, and Rahul Telang, 2010.

Co-PI. "Aligning Empirically Validated Privacy Perceptions and Behaviors with a Dynamic Privacy Policy Landscape," I3P privacy project (Grant awarded: $175,000). With Travis Breaux (PI) and Rahul Telang, 2010-2012.

PI. "Privacy Concerns and Information Disclosure: An Illusion of Control Hypothesis [continuation]," National Science Foundation’s Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST) (Grant awarded: $85,000), 2010.

Co-PI. "SPION: Security and Privacy for Online Social Networks," SBO Support Channel (Strategic Basic Research, IWT-Flanders) (Share of grant awarded: $320,000). With Bart Preneel (PI) et al, 2010-2013.

Co-PI. "Privacy Nudges," Google Focused Research Award (Grant awarded: $400,000). With Lorrie Cranor (PI) and Norman Sadeh, 2010.

PI. "Privacy Concerns and Information Disclosure: An Illusion of Control Hypothesis," National Science Foundation’s Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST) (Grant awarded: $65,000), 2009.

Core Faculty Member. "IGERT: Usable Privacy and Security," National Science Foundation (Grant awarded: $3.2M). PI: Lorrie Cranor, 2009-2014.

Co-PI. "Beyond Search: Semantic Computing and Internet Economics," Microsoft Corporation (Grant awarded: $60,000). PI: Lorrie Cranor, 2008.

PI. "Evaluating and Enhancing Privacy and Information Sharing in Online Social Networks," National Science Foundation IIS (Grant awarded: $387,606), 2007-2010.

Study Resource Team Member. "Composing the Right Mix of Humans & Technology for Lunar Surface Exploration," National Aeronautics & Space Administration unsolicited BlueSky proposal (Share of grant awarded: $9,000). PI: Dr. Kenneth M. Ford (Institute for Human & Machine Cognition), 2006-2007.

Co-PI. "What is It To You? A Survey of Online Privacy Concerns and Risks," NET Institute Summer Grant (Grant awarded: $3,000). With: Janice Tsai, Christina Fong, and Lorrie Cranor (PI), 2006.

PI, "Attention Economics in Information-rich Environments," Carnegie Mellon University CyLab and Humboldt Foundation Transcoop Award (Share of grant awarded: $36,000). Co-PI: Prof. Sarah Spiekermann (Humboldt University, Berlin), 2005-2008.

Co-PI. "Preventing Semantic Attacks," National Science Foundation Cyber Trust (Grant awarded: $1,6M). With Sven Dietrich, Julie Downs, Jason Hong, Norman Sadeh, and Lorrie Cranor (PI), 2005-2008.

Team Leader. "End-to-end Mission Modeling and Simulation Environment," National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Human & Robotic Technology Broad Agency Announcement 04-02 Award (Grant originally awarded: $14M). PI: Dr. Maarten Sierhuis, 2005-2006.

Internal Sources

PI. "The Impact of Online Social Networks on Firms' Hiring Practices," Carnegie Mellon University CyLab. Seed Funding (Grant awarded: $28,000), 2010.

PI. "The Evolutionary Roots of Privacy and Security Concerns," Carnegie Mellon University CyLab. Seed Funding (Grant awarded: $28,000), 2010.

Co-PI. "Weaving Together Technology Innovation with Human and Policy Considerations," CMU-Portugal ICTI. PI: Norman Sadeh, 2008.

Co-PI. "Privacy Decision Making," Carnegie Mellon University CyLab (Grant awarded: $185,000). PI: Lorrie Cranor, 2008-2009.

PI, "Personal Information Revelation in Online Social Networks: Cross-cultural Effects," Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Seed Funding (Grant awarded: $28,000), 2007.

PI. "Personal Information Security and Online Social Networks," Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Seed Funding (Grant awarded: $31,500), 2006.

Co-PI, "Supporting Trust Decisions," Carnegie Mellon University CyLab (Grant awarded: $204,000). PI: Dr. Lorrie Cranor, 2005-2008.

PI. "Understanding the Dichotomy: An Experimental Approach to Privacy Attitudes and Behavior," Carnegie Mellon University Berkman Faculty Development Award (Grant awarded: $9,000), 2003-2004.

 

UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems, Dean's Mellon Fellowship for Information Economics (through Dean Hal Varian), 2002.

 

UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems, Dean's Mellon Scholarship for Information Economics (through Dean Hal Varian), 1999.

 

Trinity College Foundation HPC Fellowship (through Dr. Patrick Waldron), 1998.

 

TACIS-ACE Scholarship (through Prof. Hartmut Lehmann), 1997.

 

 

Publications

Journal Articles

[J22] "Misplaced Confidences: Privacy and the Control Paradox," Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein, Social Psychological and Personality Science, forthcoming, 2012. (Winner, Best Doctoral Student Paper Award, CIST 2010; Runner-up, Best Paper Award, CIST 2010; Leading paper, 2010 Future of Privacy Forum's Best "Privacy Papers for Policy Makers" Competition.)

[J21] "The Economics of Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti and Curtis Taylor. Journal of Economic Literature, Commissioned article, in preparation.

 

[J20] "Inducing Customers to Try New Goods," Alessandro Acquisti. Review of Industrial Organization, forthcoming, 2012.

 

[J19] "Uncertainty, Ambiguity and Privacy". Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags, Communications & Strategy, Special issue on privacy, forthcoming 2012.

 

[J18] "Privacy and Market Failures: Three Reasons for Concern, and Three Reasons for Hope," Alessandro Acquisti. Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law, Invited paper, forthcoming 2012.

 

[J17] "The Impact of Relative Judgments on Concern about Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George Loewenstein. Journal of Marketing Research, 49(2), 2012.

 

[J16] "Government-Scale Monetary Forgery: Economics and Countermeasures," Nicolas Christin, Alessandro Acquisti, Bryan Parno, and Adrian Perrig. I/S, forthcoming 2012.

[J15] "Do Interruptions Pay Off? Effects of Interruptive Ads on Consumers' Willingness to Pay," Alessandro Acquisti and Sarah Spiekermann. Journal of Interactive Marketing, 25(4), 226-240, 2011.

 

[J14] “Les Comportements De Vie Privée Face Au Commerce Electronique: Une Economie De La Gratification Immédiate,” Alessandro Acquisti. Réseaux, Special Issue on “Données Personnelles et Vie Privée Sur les Réseaux, Nouveaux Comportements, Nouvelles Regulations” (Editors: Alain Rallet et Fabrice Rochelandet), 3(167), 105-130, 2011. [Translated reprint of P8]

 

[J13] "Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?," Sasha Romanosky, Rahul Telang, and Alessandro Acquisti. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management30(2), 256-286, 2011.

[J12] "Strangers on a Plane: Context-dependent Willingness to Divulge Personal Information," Leslie John, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. Journal of Consumer Research, 37(5), 858-873, 2011.

[J11] "The Effect of Online Privacy Information on Purchasing Behavior: An Experimental Study," Janice Tsai, Serge Egelman, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti. Information Systems Research, 22, 254-268, 2011.

[J10] "Behavioral Research and Empirical Modeling of Marketing Channels: Implications for Both Fields and a Call for Future Research," Robert J. Meyer, Joachim Vosgerau, Vishal Singh, Alessandro Acquisti, et al. Marketing Letters, 21(3), 301-315, 2010.

[J9] "Teaching Johnny not to Fall for Phish," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Steve Sheng, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Cranor, and Jason Hong. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 10(2), 2010.

[J8] "Privacy Costs and Personal Data Protection: Economic and Legal Perspectives," Sasha Romanosky and Alessandro Acquisti, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 24(3), 1061-1102, 2009.

[J7] "Nudging Privacy: The Behavioral Economics of Personal Information," Alessandro Acquisti. IEEE Security and Privacy, 7(6), 82-85, 2009.

[J6] "Predicting Social Security Numbers from Public Data," Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 106(27), 10975-10980, 2009. [Commentary by William E. Winkler. Most downloaded PNAS manuscript in July 2009]

[J5] "Identity Management, Privacy, and Price Discrimination," Alessandro Acquisti, IEEE Security and Privacy, 6(2), 46-50, 2008.

[J4] "Conditioning Prices on Purchase History," Alessandro Acquisti and Hal Varian. Marketing Science, 24(3), 1-15, 2005.

[J3] "Privacy and Rationality in Decision Making," Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. IEEE Security and Privacy, 3(1), 26-33, 2005.

[J2] "Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti. Rivista di Politica Economica, V/VI, 319-368, 2005.

 

[J1] "Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation," Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth, and Alessandro Acquisti. Journal of Comparative Economics, 27, 595-617, 1999.

 

 

Under Review

[J23] "Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation,” Sasha Romanosky, David Hoffman, and Alessandro Acquisti. Invited Second round review.

 

[J24] "The Paradoxical Effect of Randomized Response Techniques," Leslie John, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. Invited Second round review.

 

[J25] "A Model of Trust in a Phishing Scenario," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Alessandro Acquisti, and Lorrie Cranor. Invited Second round review.

[J26] "The Unintended Consequences of Identity Theft Prevention Policies," Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Invited Second round review.

 

[J27] "The Impact of Privacy Regulation on Technology Adoption: The Case of Health Information Exchanges," Idris Adjerid, Alessandro Acquisti, Rema Padman, Rahul Telang, and Julia Adler-Milstein. Invited Second round review.

 

[J28] "Guns, Privacy, and Crime," Alessandro Acquisti and Catherine Tucker. First round review.

 

[J29] "What is Privacy Worth?,"  Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George Loewenstein. (Leading paper, 2010 Future of Privacy Forum's Best "Privacy Papers for Policy Makers" Competition.) First round review.

 

[J30] "Data Breaches and Identity Theft: When is Mandatory Disclosure Optimal?," Sasha Romanosky, Richard Sharp, and Alessandro Acquisti. First round review

 

[J31] "Beyond Security Awareness: Intentions and Behavior in a Phishing Scenario," Donato Barbagallo, Alessandro Acquisti, and Julie Downs. First round review.

 

 

 

In Progress

[J32] "Discounting the Past: Bad Weighs Heavier than Good," Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti, and Joachim Vosgerau.

[J33] "Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality," Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross.

 

[J34] "Disclosure Desire: Understanding when People Disclose Private Information," Leslie John, George Loewenstein, and Alessandro Acquisti.

[J35] "A Short History of Facebook," Fred Stutzman, Ralph Gross, and Alessandro Acquisti.

 

[J36] "An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks," Alessandro Acquisti and Christina Fong. (Winner, APP Privacy Law Scholars Conference Best Paper Award; Selected, Future of Privacy Forum's "Privacy Papers for Policy Makers" 2012.)

 

[J37] "The Evolutionary Roots of Privacy Concerns," Alessandro Acquisti, Laura Brandimarte, and Jeff Hancock.

Books

[B2] Trust 2010: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing. Alessandro Acquisti, Sean Smith, and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (eds). Springer, 2010.

 

[B1] Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies and Practices. Alessandro Acquisti, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Stefanos Gritzalis, Costas Lambrinoudakis (eds). Auerbach Publications (Taylor and Francis Group), 2007.

 

 

Book Chapters

[C9] “The Economics of Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti and Laura Brandimarte. In Martin Peitz and Joel Waldfogel (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012.

[C8] "Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks," Ralph Gross and Alessandro Acquisti. In David Matheson (ed), Contours of Privacy, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. [Reprint of P9]

[C7] “What Can Behavioral Economics Teach Us About Privacy?” Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. In Alessandro Acquisti, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Stefanos Gritzalis, Costas Lambrinoudakis (eds), Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies and Practices, Auerbach Publications (Taylor and Francis Group), 363-377, 2007.

[C6] "Note sull'Economia della Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti. In V. Cuffaro, R. D’Orazio, V. Ricciuto (eds), Il Codice del Trattamento dei Dati Personali, Giappichelli, 907-920, 2007.

[C5] "Ubiquitous Computing, Customer Tracking, and Price Discrimination," Alessandro Acquisti. In G. Roussos (ed), Ubiquitous Commerce, Springer-Verlag, 115-132, 2005.

[C4] "Privacy and Rationality: A Survey," Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. In K. Strandburg and D. Raicu (eds), Privacy and Technologies of Identity: A Cross -Disciplinary Conversation, Springer-Verlag, 15-29, 2005.

[C3] "Privacy and Security of Personal Information: Technological Solutions and Economic Incentives," Alessandro Acquisti.  In J. Camp and R. Lewis (eds), The Economics of Information Security, Kluwer, 165-178, 2004.

[C2] "Losses, Gains, and Hyperbolic Discounting: Privacy Attitudes and Privacy Behavior," Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. In J. Camp and R. Lewis (eds), The Economics of Information Security, Kluwer, 179-186, 2004.

 

[C1] "Adjustable Autonomy and Human-Agent Teamwork in Practice: An Interim Report on Space Applications," J. M. Bradshaw, M. Sierhuis, A. Acquisti, P. Feltovich, R. Hoffman, R. Jeffers, D. Prescott, N. Suri, A. Uszok, and R. van Hoof. In H. Hexmoor, C. Castelfranchi, and R. Falcone (eds), Agent Autonomy. Kluwer, 243-280, 2003.

 

 

Refereed Proceedings

[P26] "“I regretted the minute I pressed share”: A Qualitative Study of Regrets on Facebook," Yang Wang, Saranga Komanduri, Pedro G. Leon, Gregory Norcie, Alessandro Acquisti, and Lorrie Faith Cranor. Proceedings of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), ACM, 2011. [Acceptance rate for SOUPS 2010: 31%]

[P25] "Nudging Users towards Privacy on Mobile Devices," Rebecca Balebako, Pedro G. Leon, Hazim Almuhimed, Patrick Gage Kelley, Jonathan Mugan, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Faith Cranor and Norman Sadeh. Proceedings of the Workshop on Persuasion, Nudge, Influence and Coercion, Computer-Human Interaction Conference (CHI), 2011.

[P24] "The Economics and Behavioral Economics of Privacy: A Note" Alessandro Acquisti, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Ethics and Policy of Biometrics and International Data Sharing, Hong Kong, Springer LNCS Vol. 60059, 2010. (Invited paper.)

[P23] "Timing Is Everything? The Effects of Timing and Placement of Online Privacy Indicators," Serge Egelman, Janice Tsai, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2009. [24.5% acceptance rate]

[P22] "Improving Phishing Countermeasures: An Analysis of Expert Interviews," Steve Sheng, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Cranor, and Jason Hong. Proceedings of the eCrime Researchers Summit (eCRS), 2009.

[P21] "School of Phish: A Real-world Evaluation of Anti-Phishing Training," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Justin Cranshaw, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Cranor, Jason Hong, Mary Ann Blair, Theodore Pham. Proceedings of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2009. [31% acceptance rate]

[P20] "Countermeasures against Government-Scale Monetary Forgery", Alessandro Acquisti, Nicolas Christin, Bryan Parno, and Adrian Perrig, (Short paper), Proceedings of Financial Cryptography Conference (FC), Springer, 2008. [23% acceptance rate for full papers]

[P19] "Anti-Phishing Education," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Steve Sheng, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Cranor, and Jason Hong. Proceedings of the International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace (ICELW), 2008.

[P18] "Lessons From a Real World Evaluation of Anti-Phishing Training,"   Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Steve Sheng, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Cranor, and Jason Hong. Proceedings of the eCrime Researchers Summit (eCRS), ACM, 2008.

[P17] “Protecting People from Phishing: The Design and Evaluation of an Embedded Training Email System,” Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Yong Rhee, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Jason Hong, and Elizabeth Nunge. Proceedings of the Computer-Human Interaction Conference (CHI), CHI Letters 9(1), 905-914, 2007. [25% acceptance rate]

[P16] "Anti-Phishing Phil: The Design and Evaluation of a Game That Teaches People Not to Fall for Phish," Steve Sheng, Bryant Magnien, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Cranor, Jason Hong, and Elizabeth Nunge.  Proceedings of the 2007 Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), ACM, 88-99, 2007. [32% acceptance rate]

[P15] "Getting Users to Pay Attention to Anti-Phishing Education: Evaluation of Retention and Transfer," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Yong Rhee, Steve Sheng, S. Hasan, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Cranor and Jason Hong. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual eCrime Researchers Summit, October 4-5, 2007, ACM, 0-81. [37% acceptance rate]

[P14] “Power Strips, Prophylactics, and Privacy, Oh My!,” Julia Gideon, Serge Egelman, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti. Proceedings of the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), ACM, 133-144, 2006.  [36% acceptance rate]

[P13] “Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook,” Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop (PET), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4258, Springer, 36-58, 2006. [26% acceptance rate]

[P12] “Trust Modeling for Online Transactions: A phishing scenario,” Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Alessandro Acquisti, and Lorrie Faith Cranor. Proceedings of Privacy Security Trust Conference (PST), 2006.  [30% acceptance rate]

[P11] “Privacy Patterns for Online Interactions,” Sasha Romanosky, Alessandro Acquisti, Jason Hong, Lorrie Cranor, and Batya Friedman. Proceedings of Pattern Languages of Programs Conference (PLOP), ACM, 1-9, 2006.

[P10] “Agent-based Mission Modeling and Simulation.” M. Sierhuis, W.J. Clancey, C. Seah, A. Acquisti, D. Bushnell, B. Damer, N. Dorighi, L. Edwards, L. Faithorn, L. Flueckiger, R. v Hoof, D. Lees, A. Nandkumar, C. Neukom, M. Scott, M. Sims, R. Wales, S.-Y. Wang, J. Wood, J., and B. Zhang. Proceedings of Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium (ADS), at the Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim), 2006.

[P9] "Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks," Ralph Gross and Alessandro Acquisti. Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), ACM, 71-80, 2005. [23% acceptance rate]

[P8] "Privacy in Electronic Commerce and the Economics of Immediate Gratification," Alessandro Acquisti. Proceedings of the ACM Electronic Commerce Conference (ACM EC), ACM, 21-29, 2004. (Winner, 2005 PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.) [16% acceptance rate]

[P7] "Teamwork-Centered Autonomy for Extended Human-Agent Interaction in Space Applications," Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Alessandro Acquisti, et al. Proceedings of the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposia - Interaction between Humans and Autonomous Systems over Extended Operation, AAAI Press, 2004.

[P6] "On the Economics of Anonymity," Alessandro Acquisti, Roger Dingledine, and Paul Syverson. Proceedings of the Financial Cryptography Conference (FC), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2742, Springer-Verlag, 84-102, 2003. (Nominated, 2003 PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.) [26% acceptance rate]

[P5]. "Human-Agent Teamwork and Adjustable Autonomy in Practice," Maarten Sierhuis, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Alessandro Acquisti, Ron van Hoof, Renia Jeffers, and Andrzej Uszok. Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (I-Sairas). Nara, Japan, May 2003.

[P4] "Living With Agents and Liking It: Addressing the Technical and Social Acceptability of Agent Technology," Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Maarten Sierhuis, Alessandro Acquisti, Paul Feltovich, Robert Hoffman, Renia Jeffers, Niranjan Suri, Andrzej Uszok, and Ron Van Hoof. Proceedings of the 2003 AAAI Spring Symposia - Human Interaction with Autonomous Systems in Complex Environments, AAAI Press, SS-03-04, 15-23, 2003.

[P3] "Representation and Reasoning for DAML-based Policy and Domain Services in KaOS and Nomads," J. M. Bradshaw, A. Uszok, R. Jeffers, N. Suri, P. Hayes, M. Burstein, A. Acquisti, et al. Proceedings of the Second ACM International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 03), ACM Press, 835-842, 2003.

[P2] "Multi-agent Plan Execution and Work Practice: Modeling plans and practices onboard the ISS," Maarten Sierhuis, Alessandro Acquisti, and William Clancey. Proceedings of the Third International NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space. Houston, TX, October 2002.

 

[P1] "Agent-based Modeling of Collaboration and Work Practices onboard the International Space Station," Alessandro Acquisti, Maarten Sierhuis, William Clancey, and Jeffrey Bradshaw. Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Computer-Generated Forces and Behavior Representation (CGF), 181-188, 2002.

 

 

Refereed Conferences and Workshops

[CW51]An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks" Alessandro Acquisti and Christina Fong. Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC), 2012.

 

[CW51]An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks" Alessandro Acquisti and Christina Fong. INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, 2012.

 

[CW51]An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks" Alessandro Acquisti and Christina Fong. 10th ZEW Conference on the Economics of Information and Communication Technologies, 2012.

 

[CW51]An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks" Alessandro Acquisti and Christina Fong. 40th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC), 2012.

 

[CW51]An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks" Alessandro Acquisti and Christina Fong. International Economic Science Association Conference, NYU, 2012.

 

[CW51]An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks" Alessandro Acquisti and Christina Fong. Bay Area Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop, 2012.

 

[CW51]An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks" Alessandro Acquisti and Christina Fong. Utah Winter Conference on Business Intelligence, 2012.

 

[CW50] "Decision Reversibility and Self-Disclosure,” Eyal Peer and Alessandro Acquisti. Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference (BDRM), 2012.

 

[CW49] "Sleight of Privacy,” Idris Adjerid, Alessandro Acquisti, and Laura Brandimarte. Conference on Web Privacy Measurement, 2012.

 

[CW46] "Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation,” Sasha Romanosky, David Hoffman, and Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2012.

 

[CW48] "Faces of Facebook: Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality," Alessandro Acquisti, Ralph Gross, and Fred Stutzman. BlackHat USA, 2011.

 

[CW48] "Faces of Facebook: Face Recognition and Web 2.0," Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Workshop on Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research (SCECR), 2011.

[CW45] "Health Disclosure Laws and Health Information Exchanges," Idris Adjerid, Alessandro Acquisti, Rema Padman, and Rahul Telang. Annual Symposium of The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), 2011.

[CW45] "Health Disclosure Laws and Health Information Exchanges," Idris Adjerid, Alessandro Acquisti, Rema Padman, and Rahul Telang. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2011.

 

[CW45] "Health Disclosure Laws and Health Information Exchanges," Idris Adjerid, Alessandro Acquisti, Rema Padman, and Rahul Telang. INFORMS Healthcare, 2011.

[CW47] "Discounting Past Information," Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti, and Joachim Vosgerau. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2011.

[CW46] "Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation,” Sasha Romanosky, David Hoffman, and Alessandro Acquisti. Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC), 2011.

[CW45] "Health Disclosure Laws and Health Information Exchanges," Idris Adjerid, Alessandro Acquisti, and Rema Padman. Workshop on Economics of Health Care Information Technology, 2011.

[CW38] "Privacy Concerns and Information Disclosure: An Illusion of Control Hypothesis," Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. Law & Society Association Conference, Panel on Cutting-Edge Issues in Privacy Regulation, 2011.

[CW46] "Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation," Sasha Romanosky, David Hoffman, and Alessandro Acquisti. Fourth Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC), 2011.

[CW46] "Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation," Sasha Romanosky, David Hoffman, and Alessandro Acquisti. Seventh Annual Forum on Financial Information Systems and Cybersecurity: A Public Policy Perspective, 2011.

[CW46] "Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation," Sasha Romanosky, David Hoffman, and Alessandro Acquisti. Fifth Annual IFIP International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection, 2011.

[CW43] "Data Breaches and Identity Theft: When is Disclosure Optimal?," Sasha Romanosky, Richard Sharp, and Alessandro Acquisti. iConference, 2011.

[CW45] "Health Disclosure Laws and Health Information Exchanges," Idris Adjerid, Alessandro Acquisti, and Rema Padman. Workshop on Health Information and Economics (WHITE), 2010.

[CW38] "Privacy Concerns and Information Disclosure: An Illusion of Control Hypothesis," Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. Conference in Information Systems and Technology (CIST), 2010.

[CW43] "Data Breaches and Identity Theft: When is Mandatory Disclosure Optimal?," Sasha Romanosky, Richard Sharp, and Alessandro Acquisti. Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS), 2010.

[CW43] "Data Breaches and Identity Theft: When is Mandatory Disclosure Optimal?," Sasha Romanosky, Richard Sharp, and Alessandro Acquisti. Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC), 2010.

[CW44] "Guns, Privacy, and Crime," Alessandro Acquisti and Catherine Tucker. Privacy Law Scholar Conference (PLSC), 2010.

[CW44] "Guns, Privacy, and Crime," Alessandro Acquisti and Catherine Tucker. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2010. [33% acceptance rate]

[CW43] "Data Breaches and Identity Theft: When is Mandatory Disclosure Optimal?," Sasha Romanosky, Richard Sharp and Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2010. [33% acceptance rate]

[CW38] "Privacy Concerns and Information Disclosure: An Illusion of Control Hypothesis," Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti and George Loewenstein. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2010. [33% acceptance rate]

[CW42] "Please Continue to Hold: An empirical study on user tolerance of security delays," Serge Egelman, David Molnar, Nicolas Christin, Alessandro Acquisti, Cormac Herley, and Shriram Krishnamurthi. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2010.[33% acceptance rate]

[CW35] "The Impact of Relative Judgments on Concern about Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George Loewenstein. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2009.

[CW41] "Social Insecurity: The Unintended Consequences of the Identity Theft Prevention Policies," Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2009.

[CW40] "I just found 10 million SSNs," Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Proceedings of the 2009 BlackHat US Conference, 2009.

[CW38] "Privacy Concerns and Information Disclosure: An Illusion of Control Hypothesis," Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2009. (Presented by Laura Brandimarte.) (Invited paper.)

[CW35] "The Impact of Relative Judgments on Concern about Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George Loewenstein. Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), 2009.

[CW35] "The Impact of Relative Judgments on Concern about Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George Loewenstein. Privacy Law Scholar Conference (PLSC), June 2009.

[CW39] "What is Privacy Worth?," Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George Loewenstein. Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), 2009.

[CW38] "Privacy Concerns and Information Disclosure: An Illusion of Control Hypothesis," Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. Computers Freedom and Privacy (CFP) Research Showcase, 2009. (Presented by Laura Brandimarte.)

[CW37] "Inferring Sensitive Information from online public data," Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Workshop on Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research (SCECR), 2009

[CW36] "Privacy Costs and Personal Data Protection: Economic and Legal Perspectives," Sasha Romanosky and Alessandro Acquisti. INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2009. (Presented by Sasha Romanosky.) (Invited paper.)

[CW35] "The Impact of Relative Judgments on Concern about Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George Loewenstein. Judgment and Decision Making, 2009.

[CW34] "The Best of Strangers: Context-dependent Willingness to Divulge Personal Information," Leslie John , Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. 5th Annual Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference, Yale University, April 2009. (Presented by Leslie John.)

[CW33] "Inferring Private Data from Publicly-Available Sources," Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Privacy Law Scholar Conference (PLSC), 2008.

[CW32] "Do Pop-ops Pay Off? The Economic Impact of Attention-consuming Advertising Interruptions," Alessandro Acquisti and Sarah Spiekermann. Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), 2008.

[CW28] "Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?," Sasha Romanosky, Rahul Telang, and Alessandro Acquisti. Electronic Health and Information & Privacy Conference, 2008.

[CW28] "Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?," Sasha Romanosky, Rahul Telang, and Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2008.

[CW31] "On the Valuation of Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George Loewenstein. INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2008. (Presented by Leslie John.)

 

[CW30] “Inconsistent Preferences for Privacy,” Leslie John, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. Oral presentation, Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference (BDRM), 2008. (Presented by Leslie John.) [Acceptance rate: less than 35%]

[CW29] “Searching for Privacy in all the Wrong Places: A Behavioral Economics Perspective on Individual Concern for Privacy,” Leslie John, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. Oral presentation, at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making 28th Annual Conference, Long Beach, CA, 2007. (Presented by Leslie John.) [Acceptance rate: less than 30%]

[CW20] “Is There a Cost to Privacy Breaches? An Event Study,” Alessandro Acquisti, Allan Friedman, and Rahul Telang. Proceedings of the International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS), 2006. [10% acceptance rate in the Security track]

[CW20] “Is There a Cost to Privacy Breaches? An Event Study,” 2007 Informs Marketing Conference, Special Session: Privacy, Marketing Strategy, and Policy, 2007. (Invited paper.)

[CW28] "Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?" Sasha Romanosky, Rahul Telang, and Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), 2007.

[CW28] "Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?" Sasha Romanosky, Rahul Telang, and Alessandro Acquisti. International Symposium of Information Systems, 2007.

[CW27] "When 25 Cents is too much: An Experiment on Willingness-To-Sell and Willingness-To-Protect Personal Information,” Jens Grossklags and Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2007. [41% acceptance rate]

[CW26] “The Effect of Online Privacy Information on Purchasing Behavior: An Experimental Study,” Janice Tsai, Serge Egelman, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2007. [41% acceptance rate]

[CW26] "The Effect of Online Privacy Information on Purchasing Behavior: An Experimental Study," Janice Tsai, Serge Egelman, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti. Proceedings of the International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS), 2007. [21% acceptance rate]

[CW25] “Financial privacy for free? US consumers’ response to FACTA,” Alessandro Acquisti and Bin Zhang. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2006. [53% acceptance rate]

[CW20] "Is There a Cost to Privacy Breaches? An Event Study" Alessandro Acquisti, Allan Friedman, and Rahul Telang. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2006. [53% acceptance rate]

[CW24] “What can behavioral economics teach us about privacy?” Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Security (ETRICS), 2006. (Invited paper.)

[CW23] “Understanding the Impact of Privacy Breaches,” Alessandro Acquisti, Allan Friedman, and Rahul Telang. 35th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC), 2006.

[CW22] “Privacy, Anonymity, and Price Discrimination,” Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on Privacy-Enhanced Personalization at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference (CHI), 2006.

[CW21] “Studying the Impact of Privacy Information on Online Purchase Decisions,” Serge Egelman, Janice Tsai, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on Privacy and HCI: Methodologies for Studying Privacy Issues, at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference (CHI), 2006.

[CW20] “Is There a Cost to Privacy Breaches? An Event Study,” Alessandro Acquisti, Allan Friedman, and Rahul Telang. International Symposium of Information Systems, 2006

[CW19] "Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2005.

[CW19] "Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. Canadian Law and Economics Association Conference (CLEA 2005.

[CW18] "The Economics of Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti. Panel at the Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP), April 2005. (Panel organizer and moderator. Panelists: Curtis Taylor, Ben Hermalin, Il-Horn Hann, Robert Gellman, Jim Harper.)

[CW17] "Darknets, DRM, and Trusted Computing: Economic Incentives for Platform Providers," Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), 2004. (Online abstract proceedings.)

[CW17] "Darknets, DRM, and Trusted Computing: Economic Incentives for Platform Providers," Alessandro Acquisti. Telecommunication Policy Research Conference (TPRC), 2004.

[CW16] "Privacy, Economics, and Immediate Gratification: Why Protecting Privacy is Easy, but Selling it Is Not," Alessandro Acquisti. Proceedings of the 2004 BlackHat US Conference, 2004. (Abstract refereed and presentation proceedings.)

[CW15] "Privacy and Rationality: Preliminary Evidence from Survey Data," Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS), 2004.

[CW14] "Inducing Customers to Try New Goods," Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), December 2003.

[CW13] "Balance of Power on eBay: Peers or Unequals?," Ben Gross and Alessandro Acquisti. First Workshop on the Economics of P2P Networks, 2003.

[CW12] "Losses, Gains, and Hyperbolic Discounting: An Experimental Approach to Personal Information Security Attitudes and Behavior," Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS), 2003.

[CW11] "Conditioning Prices on Purchase History," Alessandro Acquisti and Hal Varian. European Economic Association Conference (EEA),  2002.

[CW11] "Conditioning Prices on Purchase History," Alessandro Acquisti and Hal Varian. Workshop on Information Dynamics in the Networked Society, 2002.

[CW10] "Protecting Privacy with Economics: Economic Incentives for Preventive Technologies in Ubiquitous Computing Environments," Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on Socially-informed Design of Privacy-enhancing Solutions at the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP), 2002. (Invited paper.)

[CW9] "Security of Personal Information and Privacy: Technological Solutions and Economic Incentives," Alessandro Acquisti. First Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS), 2002.

[CW8] "A User-centric MIX-net Protocol to Protect Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on Privacy in Digital Environments: Empowering Users, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2002.

[CW7] "What We Can Learn About Human-Agent Teamwork From Practice," J. Bradshaw, M. Sierhuis, A. Acquisti, Y. Gawdiak, D. Prescott, R. Jeffers, N. Suri, and R. van Hoof. Workshop on Teamwork and Coalition Formation, ACM International Joint Conference Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS), 2002.

[CW6] "A Work Practice Model of a Day in the Life Onboard the International Space Station," Alessandro Acquisti and Maarten Sierhuis. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory Conference (CASOS), 2002. (Abstract refereed and abstract proceedings.)

[CW5] "Agent-based Modeling of Collaboration and Work Practices onboard the International Space Station," Alessandro Acquisti, Maarten Sierhuis, William Clancey, and Jeffrey Bradshaw. UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference on Computational Social Science: Agent-Based Modeling in the Social Sciences, 2002. (Abstract refereed and abstracts proceedings.)

[CW4] "Adjustable Autonomy and Teamwork for the Personal Satellite Assistant." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2001. (Presented by Maarten Sierhuis and Alessandro Acquisti. An earlier version in the proceedings is by: J. M. Bradshaw, M. Sierhuis, Y. Gawdiak, R. Jeffers, N. Suri, and M. Greaves.)

[CW3] "Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Russian Federation," Alessandro Acquisti and Hartmut Lehmann. International Atlantic Economic Association Conference (IAEAC), 1998.

[CW2] "'Intelligent' vs. Human Capital in the Endogenous/Exogenous Growth Debate," Alessandro Acquisti and Mario Baldassarri. ASSET Meeting, 1998.

[CW1] "Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation," Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth and Alessandro Acquisti. European Economic Association Conference (EEA), 1998.

[CW3] "Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Russian Federation," Alessandro Acquisti and Hartmut Lehmann. Irish Economic Association Conference (IEAC), 1998.

[CW2] "'Intelligent' vs. Human Capital in the Endogenous/Exogenous Growth Debate," Alessandro Acquisti and Mario Baldassarri. Irish Economic Association Conference (IEAC), 1998.

[CW1] "Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation," Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth, and Alessandro Acquisti. Labor Markets in Transition Economies, University of Michigan, 997.

[CW1] "Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation," Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth, and Alessandro Acquisti. EERC Conference on Economic Transition in CEE and Russia: Theory and Empirical Evidence, 1997.

Refereed Tutorials

[RT2] "Modeling and Simulating Work Practice with the Brahms Multi-agent Environment," Alessandro Acquisti, Maarten Sierhuis, and Chin Seah. Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim'07), Norfolf, VA, March 2007. (Tutorial contributor. Tutorial presenters: Maarten Sierhuis and Chin Seah.)

[RT1] "Modeling and Simulating Work Practice with the Brahms Multi-agent Environment," Alessandro Acquisti, Maarten Sierhuis, and Chin Seah. Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS), Universal City, CA, May 2005. (Tutorial contributor. Tutorial presenters: Maarten Sierhuis and Chin Seah.)

Refereed Posters

[RP11] "Decision Reversibility and Self-Disclosure,” Eyal Peer and Alessandro Acquisti. Judgment and Decision Making (JDM), 2011.

[RP10] "Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation,” Sasha Romanosky, David Hoffman, and Alessandro Acquisti. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2011.

 

[RP9] "Faces of Facebook: Face Recognition and Web 2.0," Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Computers Freedom and Privacy (CFP), 2011.

[RP8] "I Regretted the Minute I Pressed Share," A Qualitative Study of Regrets on Facebook Yang Wang, Gregory Norcie, Saranga Komanduri, Pedro Leon, Lorrie Cranor and Alessandro Acquisti. Computers Freedom and Privacy (CFP), 2011.

[RP7] "Health Disclosure Laws and Health Information Exchanges," Idris Adjerid, Alessandro Acquisti, and Rema Padman. Annual Symposium of The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), 2010.

[RP6] "The Impact of Privacy Indicators on Search Engine Browsing Patterns," Janice Tsai, Serge Egelman, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti. ACM Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2009.

[RP5] “Disclosure Drives: Understanding when People Disclose Private Information,” Leslie John, George Loewenstein, and Alessandro Acquisti. Judgment and Decision Making (JDM), Boston, MA, 2009. (Presented by Leslie John.)

[RP4] "Privacy Concerns and Information Disclosure: An Illusion of Control Hypothesis," Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. Computers Freedom and Privacy (CFP) Research Showcase Poster, 2009. (Presented by Laura Brandimarte.)

[RP4] "Privacy Concerns and Information Disclosure: An Illusion of Control Hypothesis," Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. iConference, 2009. (Presented by Laura Brandimarte.)

[RP3] “Searching for Privacy in all the Wrong Places: A Behavioral Economics Perspective on Individual Concern for Privacy,” Leslie John, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. Judgment and Decision Making PreConference (JDM) at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM, 2008. (Presented by Leslie John.)

[RP2] "Testing PhishGuru in the Real World," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Steve Sheng, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Cranor and Jason Hong. Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2008.

[RP1] “Symbols of Privacy,” Janice Tsai, Serge Egelman, Rachel Shipman, Kok-Chie Daniel Pu, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti. Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2006.

Articles in Magazines and Newspapers

[A1] "Trusted Computing e la Lotta per il Controllo del Vostro PC," Alessandro Acquisti. Il Sole 24 Ore, September 1, 2005.

Technical Reports

[TR15] "The Economics of Personal Data and the Economics of Privacy" Alessandro Acquisti (commissioned by the OECD, for the OECD Roundtable on the Economics of Privacy and Personal Data), Paris, December 2010.

[TR14] "National Cyber Leap Year Summit Co-Chairs and Participants Ideas Report" Alessandro Acquisti and Various Authors, (as part of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development [NITRD] Program, under guidance from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy [OSTP], and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense Networks and Information Integration), 2010.

[TR13] "Security Issues and Recommendations for Online Social Networks," Alessandro Acquisti and Various Authors, ENISA Position Paper No. 1, 2008.

[TR12] "Government-Scale Monetary Forgery: Economics and Countermeasures," Nicolas Christin, Alessandro Acquisti, Bryan Parno, and Adrian Perrig. CyLab Technical Report CMU-CyLab-07-016, 2007.

 

[TR11] "Teaching Johnny Not to Fall for Phish," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Steve Sheng, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Faith Cranor, and Jason Hong. CyLab Tech Report, 2007.

[TR10] “What’s It To You? A Survey of Online Privacy Concerns and Risks,” Janice Tsai, Lorrie Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti, and Christina Fong. NET Institute Working Paper #06-29, 2006.

[UT9] "Brahms Tutorial," Alessandro Acquisti, William Clancey, Ron van Hoof, Mike Scott and Maarten Sierhuis. Brahms TM01-0002, 167 pages, NASA Ames Research Center, 2001.

[TR8] "Receipt-Free Homomorphic Elections and Write-in Ballots," Alessandro Acquisti. Technical Report 2004/105, International Association for Cryptologic Research, May 2, 2004, and Carnegie Mellon Institute for Software Research International, CMU-ISRI-04-116, 2004.

[TR7] "Adjustable Autonomy and Human-Agent Teamwork in Practice: An Interim Report on Space Applications," J. M. Bradshaw, M. Sierhuis, A. Acquisti, P. Feltovich, R. Hoffman, R. Jeffers, D. Prescott, N. Suri, A. Uszok, and R. van Hoof. RTO/NATO, The Role of Humans in Intelligent and Automated Systems, RTO-MP-088, 2003.

[TR6] "Tacit Collusion, Competition and Winner-take-all in E-commerce," Alessandro Acquisti and Bernardo Huberman. UC Berkeley and Xerox PARC, 2001.

[TR5] "ISS/PSA Brahms Model," Alessandro Acquisti and Maarten Sierhuis. Brahms TM01-0004, NASA Ames Research Center, 2001.

[TR4] "Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Russian Federation," Alessandro Acquisti and Hartmut Lehmann. Trinity Economic Papers, 1/00, 2000.

[TR3] "Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation," Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth and Alessandro Acquisti. CEP Working Paper, 403; IFO Discussion Paper, 56/1998; William Davidson Institute Working Paper, 103; Trinity Economic Papers, 6/98; Licos Discussion Paper, 79/1999; and CIDEI - Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" Working Paper, 1999.

[TR2] "Von Neumann's Legacy: 'Intelligent' Capital in a Weightless Economy," Alessandro Acquisti. Trinity Economic Papers, 18/98, 1998.

 

[TR1] "'Intelligent' vs. Human Capital in the Endogenous/Exogenous Growth Debate," Alessandro Acquisti and Mario Baldassarri. Trinity Economic Papers, 19/98, 1998.

 

 

Theses

[T3] "Essays on Privacy, Anonymity, and Tracking in Computer-mediated Economic Transactions," Alessandro Acquisti, Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley. Committee: Dean Hal R. Varian, Chair (UC Berkeley, SIMS); Prof. John Chuang (UC Berkeley, SIMS); Prof. Doug Tygar (UC Berkeley, CS and SIMS); Prof. Florian Zettelmeyer (UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business).

[T2] "Labour Dynamics in the Russian Federation ," Alessandro Acquisti. M.Litt. Thesis, Trinity College Dublin, 1998. Department of Economics. Advisor: Prof. Hartmut Lehmann.

[T1] "Intelligenza Artificiale e Crescita Economica: Il Capitale Intelligente ed Autoriproducente da von Neumann alla Crescita Endogena, [Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth: Intelligent Capital and Self-reproduction from von Neumann to Endogenous Growth Theory], Alessandro Acquisti. Tesi di Laurea in Economia e Commercio, University of Rome La Sapienza, 1997. Grade: 110/110 cum laude (with honors) and special award Dignita' di pubblicazione ("Worthy of publication"). Advisor: Prof. Mario Baldassarri. Co-advisor: Prof. Luigia Carlucci Aiello.

Patents Pending or Under Submission

[PP1] "Validating Legitimacy of a Social Security Number or Other Identifier," Alessandro Acquisti, Ralph Gross, and Ioanis Biternas.

Software Artifacts

[SA1] Anti-Phishing Phil. A game designed to teach people not to fall for phishing attacks. The game was played over 50000 times since 2007. Licensed to two different companies, and translated into Portuguese. Available under a non-commercial Creative Commons license, known users include Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/antiphishing_phil

 

Selected Presentations

Keynotes and Distinguished Talks

[Listed above]

Invited Talks at Conferences and Workshops

5th Annual New York Computer Science and Economics Day, New York, December 2012.

CLIP Symposium on Big Data, Big Issues, “Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality, Fordham Law School, March 2012.

 

Telefonica Privacy and Data Monetization Event, “The Economics of Privacy,” Barcelona, February 2012.

 

Usenix Security Symposium, “From the Illusion of Control to Discounting the Past: Privacy and Behavior,” San Francisco, August 2011.

 

Federal Trade Commission, Face Facts Workshop on face recognition, “Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality,” December 2011.

Microsoft’s Innovation Outreach Program, "The Theater of Privacy," New York, April 2011. (Opening speaker for the Conference’s second day)

Microsoft’s Innovation Outreach Program, "Privacy and Social Networks," New York, April 2011.

Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic's Spring 2011 Privacy Speaker Series, "Privacy and the Illusion of Control," Berkeley, 2011.

OECD Roundtable on the Economics of Personal Data and Privacy, "The Economics of Privacy," Paris, December 2010.

OECD 30th Annual Privacy Guidelines conference, "Privacy and control," Jerusalem, October 2010. (Plenary talk.)

International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners Conference, "Consent: Illusion or Reality?," Jerusalem, October 2010.

Onassis Foundation Science Lecture Series, "The Economics of Privacy," Forth, Heraklion, Crete, June-July, 2010.

Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour (SHB), "Discounting Past Information," Cambridge, UK, June 2010.

Catholic University of Leuven, Interdisciplinary Privacy Course, "Guns, Privacy, and Crime," Alessandro Acquisti and Catherine Tucker, Leuven, June, 2010.

The Progress & Freedom Foundation, Capitol Hill Briefing, "Nuts & Bolts of Online Privacy, Advertising, Notice & Choice," Washington, DC, May 2010.

International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Global Privacy Summit, "Privacy Research at CMU CUPS," April 2010.

TRUST (Team for Research on Ubiquitous Secure Technologies) National Science Foundation Site Visit, "Privacy, Behavior, and Economics: The Illusion of Control Hypothesis," April 2010.

RSA Conference, "Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Economics, and Behavior," Invited talk in the Research Revealed Track, San Francisco, February 2010. (Also invited to film research session recording.)

Federal Trade Commission Exploring Privacy Roundtable, "Consumer Expectations and Disclosures," Washington, DC, December, 2009.

TRUST (Team for Research on Ubiquitous Secure Technologies) Autumn 2009 Conference, "Privacy, Behavior, and Economics: The Illusion of Control Hypothesis," October 2009.

Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Microsoft Conference on Internet Economics, "What is Privacy Worth?," October 2009.

National Academies, "Usability, Security, and Privacy of Computer Systems: A Workshop," Washington DC, July 2009. (Invited participation.)

Beyond Search: Semantic Computing and Internet Economics 2009 Workshop, "Empirical Study of the Impact of Privacy Information in Search Results"(presented by Lorrie Cranor), Microsoft, June 2009.

Workshop on the Economics of Securing the Information Infrastructure, Berkeley, March 2009. (Invited participation.)

Alfred P. Sloan Symposium, Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, "Privacy and Behavior," Pittsburgh, October 2009.

Network Ethics: The new Challenge in Business, ICT and Education. "Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," Lisbon, June 2009.

Information Ethics Workshop, "The Behavioral Economics of Privacy," Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership, University of Pittsburgh, October 2009. (Also invited to present "Response" to keynote speaker Mark Rotenberg.)

BlackHat Executive Briefings, "I just found 10 million SSNs," Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Las Vegas, July 2009.

BCLT and BTLJ Security Breach Notification Symposium, "Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?," Berkeley, CA, March 2009

Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour (SHB),"Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics." MIT, Boston, June 2009.

Sixth Annual Forum on Financial Information Systems and Cybersecurity, "Privacy Costs and Personal Data Protection: Economic and Legal Perspectives," March 2009. (Presented by Sasha Romanosky.)

Privacy Methodologies Workshop, "Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," London, March 2009.

Information Security Best Practices: Interactive Media, Consumer Behavior, and the Law, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, “The Best of Strangers," January 2009.

Wharton Interactive Media Initiative: Modeling Social Network Data, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks," January 2009.

Fifth Annual Forum on Financial Information Systems and Cybersecurity: A Public Policy Perspective, "Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?," March 2008. (Presented by Sasha Romanosky.)

ZEW Workshop on Web 2.0, "Privacy, Online Social Networks, and Behavioral Economics," University of Manheim, Manheim, Germany, December 2008.

Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour (SHB), "Privacy, Online Social Networks, and Behavioral Economics," MIT, Boston, June 2008.

Behavioral Issues in Marketing Channels, "Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, October 2008.

2008 Symposium on Privacy in the Age of Social Network Services, "Privacy, Behavioral Economics, and Online Social Networks," Strasbourg (France), October 2008. (Hosted by the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, as part of the 30th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners.) (Plenary talk.)

NSF Workshop on Data Confidentiality, Arlington, VA, September 6-7, 2007. (Invited participation.)

ENISA/EEMA European eIdentity conference. "Privacy, Behavioral Economics, and Online Social Networks, "Paris, June 2007.

18th Annual Economic Crime Institute conference, "Understanding the Human Element in the Disclosure of Personal Information," McLean, VA, 2007. (Plenary talk.)

NSF Workshop on Next-Generation Data Mining, "Inferring Private Data from Publicly-Available Sources," Baltimore, MD, 2007.

11th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE), "Privacy and Information Revelation in Online Social Networks: The Facebook Case." Boston, June 2007. (Plenary talk.)

XV Tor Vergata International Conference on Banking and Finance, “The Economics of Privacy and Information Security.” December 2006. (Invited paper and invited session.)

 

Contours Of Privacy Conference, "Privacy and Ambiguity." Ottawa, CA, November 2005. (Plenary talk.)

13th CACR Information Security Workshop and 5th Annual Privacy and Security Workshop - Privacy and Security: Seeking the Middle Path, "Privacy and Rationality." Toronto, CA, October 2004. (Plenary talk.)

7th Annual Privacy and Security Workshop & 15th CACR Information Security Workshop. “Imagined Communities: Privacy, Information Revelation, and the Facebook.” Toronto, Canada, 2006.

Invited Panels

(Testified at) US House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, Hearing on Understanding Consumer Attitudes About Privacy, October 2011.

 

Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank Payments Conference, "Privacy and Security in Mobile Payments," March 2012.

 

RSA Conference, Featured Research Panel on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, March 2011.

The Privacy Law Salon, Miami, January 2011.

DARPA Workshop on "Macroeconomics and Security," Boston, January 2011.

International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Global Privacy Summit, Privacy Networking Meetings, Washington DC, 2011.

Ralph Nader, Citizen Works, and the Center for the Study of Responsive Law’s Roundtable on "Regulation of Consumer Form Contracts," Washington DC, June 2010.

Berkman Center's Youth Policy Working Group Initiative, Cambridge, 2010.

International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners Conference on "Consent: Illusion or Reality?," Jerusalem, October 2010.

EPIC's Advisory Board meeting, June 2010.

Federal Cybersecurity R&D Themes Kickoff Meeting, following the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development [NITRD]’s Cyber Leap Year Initiative, under guidance from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy [OSTP], and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense Networks and Information Integration. Berkeley, May 2010.

Foo Camp East, Microsoft NERD Center, Boston, April 2010.

Carnegie Mellon University, Information Networking Institute 20th year anniversary, "Privacy or Security?," Pittsburgh, April 2010.

George Washington University School of Law and Future of Privacy Forum, "Online Privacy: Where are Law and Technology Headed?," April 2010.

Carnegie Mellon CyLab and the CyLab Mobility Research Center, "Harnessing the Future to Secure the Present - A CyLab Silicon Valley Briefing," Mountain View and Pittsburgh, March 2010.

iConference 2010, "Privacy and Web 2.0," Urbana-Champaign, February 2010.

Workshop on "The Future of Consumer Protection," Switzerland, February 2010.

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)'s 15th Annual Privacy Coalition Meeting, Washington DC, January 2010.

Workshop on Information Systems Economics (WISE)’s Plenary panel on "Expanding the WISE Footprint," St Louis, December 2010.

Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), "A Broader View of Cyber Security Economics," London, June 2009.

Federal Trade Commission Privacy Roundtable on "Benefits and Risks of Collecting, Using, and Retaining Consumer Data," FTC, Washington DC, December 2009. (C-SPAN video.)

European Data Protection Supervisor and European Network and Information Security Agency, "Responding to Data Breaches," European Parliament, Brussels, October 2009.

Computers Freedom and Privacy (CFP), Panel on "The Psychology of Security and Privacy," Washington DC, June 2009.

International Day, Faculti Jean Monnet (Department of Law, Economics and Management of the University Paris-Sud), "The Economics of Privacy," Paris, March 2009.

Technology Policy Institute, Panel on "Online Information and Privacy Policy," Rayburn Building, Washington DC, July 2009. (Panel with Alan Davidson, Director, Public Policy and Government Affairs, Google; Leslie Harris, President and CEO, Center for Democracy and Technology; Gerard Lewis, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer, Comcast Cable; Paul H. Rubin, Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute, and Dobbs Professor of Economics and Law, Emory University; Thomas Lenard, Technology Policy Institute, moderator.)

First Annual Federal Trade Commission & Northwestern University FTC Microeconomics Conference, "The Behavioral Economics of Privacy," FTC, Washington DC, November 2008.

Yale Symposiums on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace, "Searching for Privacy and Looking for Fame," Yale University, December 2007.

Trust Online Conference, "Branding and Building Trust: Social and Ethical Issues," Santa Clara University, October 2007.

Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP), Plenary panel on "Social Networks." Washington DC, 2006.

Quality of Protection Workshop at the ACM Computer and Communication Security (CCS), Panel: “Is risk analysis a good system security metric?” Washington DC, October 2006. (Panelists: Virgil D. Gligor, Deb Bodeau, Alessandro Acquisti, Roy Maxion. Panel moderator: O. Sami Saydjari.)

 

 

International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Security (ETRICS), Plenum discussion on "Security XOR Privacy." June 2006. (Panelists: Alessandro Acquisti, Andreas Pfitzmann, Peter Raab, John Riedl, Stefan Sackmann, and Sarah Spiekermann. Panel moderator: Guenter Mueller.)

CMU Cybersecurity Summit, Panel on “Social Networking.” November 2006. (Panelists: Don McGillen, Alessandro Acquisti, Jon Callas, Peter Madsen, Marty Stansell-Gamm, and Jody Westby).

Invited Seminars

University of Milan, “L’Economia della Privacy,” Milan, June 2012.

 

University of Arizona, Business School, “An Experiment in Hiring Behavior via Online Social Networks,” February 2012.

 

University of Chicago, Law and Economics Workshop. “An Experiment in Hiring Behavior via Online Social Networks,” May 2012.

 

New York University, Stern School of Business. “An Experiment in Hiring Behavior via Online Social Networks,” April 2012.

 

UC Berkeley, EECS, “Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality,” April 2012.

 

Google Tech Talk, “Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality,” February 2012.

 

Singapore Management University, “Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality,” July 2011.

 

National University of Singapore, “Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality,” July 2011.

 

Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, "Social Insecurity: The Unintended Consequences of Identity Theft Prevention Policies," March 2011.

Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC), Speaker Series event, March 2011. (Video)

Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, "From the illusion of control to discounting the past: Privacy and Behavior," Seattle, November 2010.

New York University, Stern School of Business, Paduano Symposium in Business Ethics, "From the illusion of control to discounting the past: Privacy and Behavior,” October 2010.

Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL), "From the illusion of control to discounting the past: Privacy and Behavior," October 2010.

University of Waterloo, Computer Science Department, "From the illusion of control to discounting the past: Privacy and Behavior," September 2010.

University of Pennsylvania, Biological chemistry seminar series, "Predicting Social Security Numbers from Public Data," March 2010. (The Biological chemistry seminar series has a tradition of inviting a few speakers from outside the field every year.)

TRUST (Team for Research on Ubiquitous Secure Technologies) Executive Board Meeting, "The economics (and behavioral economics) of privacy," January 2010 (Web meeting).

Department of Homeland Security, Academic Exchange with CMU researcher Alessandro Acquisti, Washington DC, July 2009.

‘Dear Colleague’ Staff Briefing by Congressman Mike Doyle, "Computers May Be Able to Guess Your Social Security Number," Washington DC, July 2009.

Princeton University, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks, " April 2009.

Penn State, “Predicting Social Security Numbers from Public Data," October 2009.

Google, Policy Research Seminars, “Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," October 2009.

UC Berkeley, EECS Trust Seminars, “Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," October 2009.

University of Paris-Sud, “Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," March 2009.

University of Freiburg, “Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," February 2009.

Harvard University, “Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," February 2009.

New York University, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks," March 2009.

University of Michigan, “Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," January 2009.

Duke University, “Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," December 2008.

John Hopkins University, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks," September 2008.

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks," April 2008.

University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks," October 2007.

University of Connecticut School of Business, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks," October 2007.

Ubicomp day, Humboldt University, "Privacy and Behavioral Economics," July 2007.

Indiana University CACR Talk, “Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks.” February 8, 2006.

University di Pittsburgh, Office of Cross-Cultural and Civic Leadership (OCCCL), “Imagined Communities: Information Revelation, Privacy, and the Facebook,” October 2006.

Societa’ Dante Alighieri of Pittsburgh, “The Impossible Dream? The Privacy Debate in the USA and in Italy," February 2006.

Security and Privacy in Future Business Services Workshop at the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Security (ETRICS), “Is There a Cost to Privacy Breaches? An Event Study,” Freiburg, Germany, 2006.

Microsoft Research (MSR), "The Economics of Privacy," Seattle, WA, August 2005.

CONSIP, "Privacy and Procurement," Rome, Italy, May 2005.

Universita' di Tor Vergata, "The Economics of Privacy," Rome, Italy, May 2005.

CIPLIT Symposium on Privacy and Identity: The Promise and Perils of a Technological Age, "Privacy and Rationality," Chicago, IL, October 2004.

University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences, "Privacy, Economics, and Immediate Gratification: Theory and Data," Pittsburgh, PA, October 2004.

PORTIA Workshop on Sensitive Financial and Medical Data, "Privacy and the Economics of Immediate Gratification," Stanford, CA, July 2004.

Stanford University, Management Science and Engineering Seminars, "Privacy, Anonymity, and Tracking in Computer-mediated Economic Transactions,” Palo Alto, CA, February 2003.

UC Santa Cruz , Baskin School of Engineering. "Privacy, Anonymity, and Tracking in Computer-mediated Economic Transactions.” Santa Cruz, CA, February 2003.

University of Michigan, Ford School of Public Policy. "Privacy, Anonymity, and Tracking in Computer-mediated Economic Transactions,” Ann Arbor, MI, February 2003.

UC Berkeley, CS Department and School of Information Management and Systems Human-Centered Computing Seminars, "Agent-based Modeling of Human-Computer Interaction and Work Practices onboard the International Space Station," Berkeley, CA, April 2002.

UC Berkeley, CS Department Security Lunch Seminars, "Probabilistic Privacy in an Untrusted Environment," Berkeley, CA, April 2002.

UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems "CalDay" invited talk, "Privacy in the Digital Age: Three Myths, One Technological Solution, and Some Economic Incentives," Berkeley , CA , April 2002.

UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Marketing Department Seminars, "Conditioning Prices on Purchase History," Berkeley, CA, January 2002.

Stanford GSB, Applied Microeconomics Seminars, "Conditioning Prices on Purchase History," Stanford, CA, November 2001. (Presented by Hal Varian.)

UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems PhD Research Seminars, "Conditioning Prices on Purchase History," Berkeley, CA , November 2001.

UC Berkeley, Economics Department IO Seminars, "Conditioning Prices on Purchase History," Berkeley, CA, October 2001.

UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business IO Fest 2001, "Conditioning Prices on Purchase History," Berkeley, CA, October 2001. (Presented by Hal Varian.)

Santa Fe Institute, 2001 Graduate Workshop on Computational Economics, "An nk landscapes approach to modeling intelligent capital," Santa Fe, NM, July 2001.

UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems PhD Research Seminars, "Intelligent Capital: Computers as Nodes in the Network Economy," Berkeley, CA, March 2001.

Xerox PARC, Information Science & Technology Lab Whistle Meetings, "Tacit collusion, Competition and Winner-take-all in E-commerce," Palo Alto, CA, August 2000.

 

 

London School of Economics, MPhil/PhD Seminars in Research Strategies, "'Intelligent' vs. Human Capital in the Endogenous/Exogenous Growth Debate," London, UK, January 1999.

Catholic University of Leuven, Economic Department Seminars, "Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Russian Federation," Leuven, Belgium, 1999. (Presented by Hartmut Lehmann.)

Trinity College Dublin , Department of Economics Lunch-Time Seminars, "Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation ," Dublin, Ireland, November 1997. (Presented by Hartmut Lehmann.)

 

 

Seminars at CMU

Carnegie Mellon University, Alumni Breakfast, “Predicting Social Security Numbers from Public Data," January 2010.

Carnegie Mellon University, CyLab Seminar Series, “Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," April 2009.

Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz Seminar Series, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks," January 2008.

Carnegie Mellon University, CBDR Seminar Series, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks," January 2008.

Carnegie Mellon University, INI Seminar Series, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks," October 2007.

Carnegie Mellon University, HCII Seminar Series, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks," October 2007.

Carnegie Mellon University, CyLab Capacity Building Program (IACBP), “The Economics of Privacy," July 2006.

Carnegie Mellon University, CyLab Japan, “The Economics of Privacy." December 2006.

Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College Convocation Talk. “The impossible dream? Privacy from the market to the Facebook.” April 2006.

Carnegie Mellon University, CPIG Privacy Interest Group, “The Impossible Dream? Privacy From the Market to the Facebook." July 2006.

Carnegie Mellon University, CyLab Seminars, “Imagined Communities: Information Revelation, Privacy, and the Facebook." August 2006.

Carnegie Mellon University, TIP (Topics in Privacy) Seminars. "Privacy and Rationality," Pittsburgh, PA, September 2004.

Carnegie Mellon University, Software Seminar Series (Software Industry Center, Institute for Software Research International, and Software Engineering Institute, "The Economics of Privacy," Pittsburgh, PA, February 2004.

Carnegie Mellon University, Cylab Partners Meeting, "The Economics of Privacy," Pittsburgh, PA, March 2004.

Carnegie Mellon University, Cylab Seminars, "Homomorphic Voting Scheme without ad-hoc Physical Assumptions," Pittsburgh, PA, January 2004

 

 

Teaching

2004-present

Privacy in the Digital Age
MISM, Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College (average instructor evaluation across all years: 4.84/5.00)

2004-present

Economic Analysis
MISM, Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College (average instructor evaluation across all years: 4.66/5.00). (The material for this class has also been used for CMU-Japan classes and Distance Education classes.)

2009

Lectures series on Information Privacy
Department of Economics, University of Paris-Sud.

2009

Information Privacy
Master in Information Technology, Freiburg University.

2006-2010

Information Privacy
Master in e-Procurement, University of Rome, Tor Vergata.

1997-1998

Computer Applications for Social Scientists - Power Point
Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin, Faculty of Business, Economics, and Social Studies.

1998

Applied Micro-econometrics
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics.

1997-1998

Mathematical and Statistical Methods
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics.

Guest Lectures

2012

Guest Lecturer, Stanford University, Law School. “Privacy and the Control Paradox,” in Ryan Calo’s course.

2012

Guest Lecturer, University of Chicago, Law School. “Privacy and the Control Paradox,” in Lior Strahilevitz’s course.

2012

Guest Lecturer, New York University, Stern School of Business. “The Economics of Privacy,” in Arun Sundararajan’s course.

2010

Guest Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University, Engineering and Public Policy. "The Economics of Privacy," in Lorrie Cranor's Privacy Project course.

2010

Guest Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University, Engineering and Public Policy. "The Economics of Privacy," in Lorrie Cranor's Privacy Project course.

2009

Guest Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University, Information Networking Institute. "Predicting Social Security Numbers from Public Data"

2008

Guest Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College. "The Economics of Privacy," in Mark Wessel's Distance Policy course.

2008

Guest Lecturer, Yale University. "Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks."

2006

Guest Lecturer, Master in Information Security, University of Rome, Tor Vergata. "The Economics of Privacy and Information Security."

2004

Guest Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University, Social and Decision Science. "The Economics of Privacy," in George Loewenstein's Empirical Methods course.

2004

Guest Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science. "The Economics of Privacy," in Lorrie Cranor's Privacy Policy, Law, and Technology course.

2002

Guest Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College. "Introduction to Cryptography" in Rahul Telang and Ashish Arora's Information Security Management course.

Guest Lecturer, UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems. Guest lecture, "Privacy and Economics in the Information Society," in Hal Varian's Strategic Computing and Communications Technology graduate course (joint course for MOT, MBA, EECS, and IMS programs).

 

 

Course Development

Developed "Privacy in the Digital Age" course for the Heinz College MISM program, Carnegie Mellon University.

Developed "Information Privacy" course for the Master in e-Procurement, University of Rome, Tor Vergata.

Textbooks/Tutorials Development

Developed Tutorial for Brahms language (multi-agent simulation and modeling environment), now used by NASA and external researchers. "Brahms Tutorial," Alessandro Acquisti, William Clancey, Ron van Hoof, Mike Scott and Maarten Sierhuis Brahms TM01-0002, 167 pages, NASA Ames Research Center, 2001. Material from this tutorial was used in: "Modeling and Simulating Work Practice with the Brahms Multi-agent Environment," Alessandro Acquisti, Maarten Sierhuis, and Chin Seah, tutorial at the Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS 2005).  Universal City, CA, May 2005, presented by Maarten Sierhuis and Chin Seah. It was also used in a similar tutorial presentation at the Agent-Directed Simulation (ADS) 2007 Conference, part of the Spring Simulation 2007 Multiconference.

 

 

Advising

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Eyal Peer (Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem), 2011-2012.

Fred Stutzman (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 2011-2012.

Brett Danaher (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania), 2008-2009.

Ralph Gross (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University), 2007-2010.

 

Ph.D. Students

Sonam Samat, Ph.D. Student, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University (main advisor).

Jim Graves, Ph.D. Student, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University (main advisor).

Pedro Leon, Ph.D. Student, CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS), Carnegie Mellon University (reader).

Leslie John, Ph.D. Student, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University (committee member). [Now at Harvard Business School]

Aleecia McDonald, Ph.D. Student, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University (committee member).

Idris Adjerid, Ph.D. Student, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University (main advisor).

Laura Brandimarte, Ph.D. Student, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University (main advisor).

Sasha Romanosky, Ph.D. Student, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University (main advisor).

Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Ph.D. Student, COS Program, Carnegie Mellon University (committee member). [Now at IIIT Delhi]

Steve Shang, Ph.D. Student, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (committee member). [Now at ICANN]

Janice Tsai, Ph.D. Student, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (committee member). [Now at Microsoft]

Supervised Master Theses

Hanan Hibshi, INI MSISTM Thesis, 2011 (reader).

Shinichi Mori, INI MSISTM Thesis, 2010 (reader).

Hideyuki Sakono, MSISPM Thesis, 2010.

Julia Gideon, MSISPM Thesis, 2006.

Ioanis A. Biternas, MSIT Thesis, 2008.

Eric Chang, MSISPM Thesis, 2006.

Jimin Lee, MSISPM Thesis, 2006.

Shaun Byrnes, MSISPM Thesis, 2006.

Samuel Edoho-Eket, Master Thesis, TR 2004-15, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004 (Reader).

Supervised Master Projects

``Privacy and Data Loss Issues in Multinational Bank Mergers,'' Kavita Khadye, Kan Khampanya, Steve Cramer, Diana Widjaja, Mona Garg, Feng Lin. Master Capstone Project for EY, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, 2010.

"Government as a Market Maker," Basil Al-Essa, Robert Kaminski, Deepak Sharma, Arunkumaran Varadharajan, Seth Watson, Marc Wautier. Systems Synthesis Project for Deloitte, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008.

"Identity Verification on the Net: A Vulnerability Assessment," Yatish Mamniya, Mrinal Manohar, Bradley Becker, Napat Boonsaeng, Candice Jang, Edwin Kairu. MSISPM Project for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007.

"Web 2.0 and Social Networking: Corporate Aspects and Opportunities," Kumaraswamy Mydala Srikantappa, Malarvizhi N. Velappan, Nomita Rajan, Raymundo Segovia, and Saurav Sharma. Systems Synthesis Project for GlaxoSmith Klein, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007.

 

 

“Ensuring Privacy Protection Within the US Department of Labor - A Practical Risk Based Approach,” Jeremy J. Hyland, Michael Ee, Sheldon A. Durrant, Ming Peng (Clement) Chen, Jin Seok Park, and Leticia V. Nisbett. MSISPM Project for the Department of Labor, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006.

"Drivers for Vulnerability Assessment." Don Ojoko-Adams, Rebecca DerGarabedian, Shaun Gilmore, John Reaghart, MSISPM Project, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004.

Supervised Independent Projects

Rahul Pandey, 2011.

Aravind Bharadwaj, 2011.

Nithin Betegeri, 2011.

Nitin Grewal, 2011.

Kumar Kunal, 2011.

John Interlante, 2011.

Sharat Sannabhadti, 2011.

Anuj Gupta, 2011.

Sharat Sannabhadti, 2011.

Shivkant Ranade, 2011.

Thejas Varier, 2011.

Snighda Nayak, 2010.

Ganesh Raj ManickaRaju, 2010.

Pooja Bandu, 2010.

Rohan Malhotra, 2010.

Rituparna Dei, 2010.

Soumya Srivastava, 2010.

Troy Stevens, 2010.

Vasundhara Garg, 2010.

Troy Stevens, 2010.

Yogesh Badwe, 2010.

Chaitra Kamath, 2009.

Eric Morris, 2009.

Aditya Amonkar, 2009.

Shankar Narayanan Viswanathan, 2009.

Sajit Kunnumkal, 2008.

Dhruv Mohindra, 2007.

Alok Yardi, 2005.

Pam Karla, 2005.

Mustafa Khan, 2005.

 

Pryia Kothari, 2004.

 

Aaron Rankin, 2004.

Informal or Occasional Academic Advising

Danny Fernandez, Ph.D. Student, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University.

Xue Bay, Ph.D. student, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University.

Il-Chul Moon, Ph.D. student, CASOS, Carnegie Mellon University

Ihnaee Choi, Master student, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University.

Anand Nandkumar, Ph.D. Student, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University.

Anuj Kumar, Ph.D. Student, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University.

 

Bin Zhang, Ph.D. Student, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University.

Service

Chair

Co-Chair, Privacy Workshop, IConference, 2013.

Co-Chair, Fifth Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour (SHB), New York, 2012.

 

Co-chair, Security Track, Sixth Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS), Cyprus, 2011.

Chair and Organizer, Fourth Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour (SHB), Carnegie Mellon University, 2011.

Co-Chair and Co-Organizer, Third Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour (SHB), with Bruce Schneier and Ross Anderson, Cambridge (UK), 2010.

Co-Chair, Third International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing (TRUST), Berlin, 2010.

Co-Chair and Co-Organizer, Second Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour (SHB), with Bruce Schneier and Ross Anderson, MIT, Boston, 2009.

Co-Chair, Cyber-Economics Track, "National Cyber Leap Year Summit"  (as part of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program, under guidance from the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense Networks and Information Integration), Washington DC, 2010.

Co-Chair and Co-Organizer, Research Track at Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference, with Lorrie Cranor, Washington DC, 2009.

Co-Chair and Co-Organizer, First Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour (SHB), with Bruce Schneier, Ross Anderson, and George Loewenstein, MIT, Boston, 2008.

Co-Chair and Co-Organizer, Sixth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, with Rahul Telang, 2007.

Co-Chair and Co-Organizer, DIMACS Workshop on Information Security Economics, 2007.

Co-Chair, Privacy in Electronic Commerce Track, International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), 2007.

Chair and Organizer, Session on the "Economics of Information Security and Privacy" at the XV Tor Vergata International Conference on Banking and Finance, with Jean Camp, 2006.

Chair, PET Award Committee, 2006.

Organizer

 

Organizer, Carnegie Mellon University’s Celebration of International Privacy Day, 2011.

Co-organizer, UBICOMP Privacy Workshop, with Jason Hong, Jens Grossklags, and John Canny, 2004, 2005.

Program Committees

International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik, Zurich, Switzerland, 2011.

International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing (TRUST), 2010, 2011. (Member of Steering Committee)

Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET), 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.

Workshop on the Security of the Internet of Things, 2010.

International Workshop on Data Privacy Management (DPM), Athens, 2010.

Conference on Information Systems, 2010.

Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2010, 2012.

Associate Editor, Economics of IS track, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2008.

Associate Editor, Privacy and Security track, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2010, 2011, 2012.

Associate Editor, Wirtschaftsinformatik Conference, Zurich, 2010.

International Workshop on Privacy and Personalization in Information Systems, ARES 2008.

APWG eCrime Researchers Summit (eCrime), 2007.

ACM Electronic Commerce Conference (ACM EC), 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. Senior PC member, 2010, 2012.

Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), 2009, 2010, 2011.

Internet of Things Conference (IOT), 2010.

International Symposium on Information Security, 2009.

International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, 2010.

Web Monetization Workshop, WWW, 2010.

Security and Privacy Track, WWW, 2010.

iConference, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.

TrustBus 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.

Financial Cryptography Conference (FC), 2007, 2009, 2010.

International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), 2007, 2008.

International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Security (ETRICS), 2006.

Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010. 2011, 2012. (Member of Steering Committee, 2007-2012).

Workshop on the Economics of Securing the Information Infrastructure (WESII), 2006.

Workshop on Privacy-Enhanced Personalization at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference (CHI), 2006.

International Symposium of Information Systems (ISIS), 2006, 2007.

Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN), 2006.

Information Security Conference (ISC), 2006.

Workshop on Quality of protection (QoP), 2005 (at ESORICS/METRICS 2005), 2006, 2007, 2008.

Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA) at the International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive) 2006, 2007.

IASTED International Conference on Web Technologies, Applications, and Services, 2005.

Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES) at the ACM Computer and Communication Security Conference (CCS), 2005, 2008.

Discussion or Panel Chair (Selected)

Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), Session chair, 2009.

NBER Summer Workshop on IT & Economics, Discussant, 2010.

Workshop on Information Systems Economics (WISE), Discussant, 2008, 2010.

American Economic Association Annual Meeting, Discussant in the Sessions: "Economics of Open Source" and "Economics of Privacy." San Diego, CA, January 2004.

American Economic Association Annual Meeting, Discussant in the Sessions: "Markets for Information" and "Firm Behavior in the Internet Economy." Washington, DC, January 2003.

Journals Reviewing

Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, American Economic Review, Management Science, Marketing Science, Information Systems Research, Applied Economics, European Conference on Information Systems, IEEE Security and Privacy, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Surveys, Communications of the ACM, Applied Economics,  IEEE Computer,  Information Systems Frontiers, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Computer- Mediated Communication, Journal of Economics Management and Strategy, IPSI, MIS Quarterly, Cognitive Science, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Economics of Transition, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Electronic Commerce Research Journal, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Information Systems Research, The Handbook of Information Security, Information Economics and Policy, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Identity in the Information Society Journal, Risk Analysis, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications.

Conferences and Workshops Reviewing

IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), International Conference on Information Systems, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, CHI, CSCW.

Grants Reviewing

National Science Foundation (reviewer and reviewing panel participant, various programs), BSF (United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation), UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Dutch Technology Foundation STW, NASA SBIR Program, National Science Foundation IIS Program, TOKEN (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research).

 

 

Editorial Boards

2012-present

Associate Editor, Information Systems Research.

2012-present

Editor, “On the Horizons” column, IEEE Security & Privacy.

2012

Associate Editor, Information Systems Research, Special Issue on Social Media and Business Transformation.

2012

Associate Editor, Management Science, Special Issue on Business Analytics.

2009-present

Member of the Editorial Board, Information Security Series, College Publications.

2008-present

Member of the Advisory Board, SSRN LSN Information Privacy Law Abstracting eJournal.

2006-present

Member of the International Editorial Review Board (IERB), International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP).

2004-present

Member of Editorial Board, I/S Journal.

Affiliations and Other Positions

2011-present

Board of Advisors, Future of Privacy Forum.

2010-present

Co-Director, CMU Center for Behavioral Decision Research (CBDR).

2010-present

Member, Aspen Institute Italia.

2010-present

Member, EPIC Advisory Board.

2008-present

Fellow, Ponemon Institute.

2006-present

Charter Contributor to the Privacy Network at the Centre for Innovation, Law and Policy at the University of Toronto.

2005-present

Member, Cylab Privacy Interest Group.

2004-present

Member, CMU Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory.

2004-present

Member, CMU Information Networking Institute.

2003-present

Member, Carnegie Mellon Cylab.

2003-present

Member, CMU Privacy Technology Center.

2004-2007

Research Fellow, IZA, Berlin, Germany. (Research Affiliate, 2001-2003.)

1997-1998

Member, European Economic Association.

CMU Service

Committee Member, MISM-MIST, 2008-present.

Member, Living Analytics Research Center (LARC), Singapore Management University (SMU) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) collaboration, 2011-present. Spent July 2011 in at SMU as part of the partnership.

Alternate Representative of the Heinz College, I3P meetings, 2010-present.

Presented at Cylab Partners meetings, 2004-present.

Presented at Cylab ARO meetings, 2004-present.

Co-Organizer (with Karen Clay), Monday Heinz Research Seminars, Fall 2010-Spring 2011.

Mentor, IGERT students, 2011.

Participated in Cylab Silicon Valley event (organized by CyLab Senior Fellow Richard Power), 2010.

Member of Advisory Board, Lorrie Cranor's "Privacy Project" Course, Spring 2010.

Presented at Heinz College Dean’s Advisory Board meetings, 2009-2010.

Interviewed faculty candidates for the Heinz College, International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS), 2010.

Delivered talks at IACB program, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007, 2009, 2010.

Paticipated in maketing campaigns (vidoes, photos, interviews), Carnegie Mellon Centennial campaign.

Participated in Carnegie Mellon University Teaching Roundtable, 2009.

Heinz College Transition Committee (Information School), 2008.

Met with numerous companies, agencies, and entities visiting Carnegie Mellon University and Heinz College, includuing: National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration Accreditation, Site Visit for the Master of Public Policy and Management (MSPPM) Program and Master of Public Management (MPM) Program, 2007; presentations to CyLab partners including: Bell Canada, Intel, Boeing, Merril Lynch, and Royal Bank of Canada; conference call with Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) for the Trust project; meetings with Huron Consulting Group Consulting, on behalf of Office of Sponsored Programs, 2011; meetings with MITRE, 2011 […].

Additional Service

Meetings with US policy makers, Government organizations, and Government agencies, discussing matters related to consumer privacy, face recognition, identity theft, and Social Security numbers (including: US House of Representative and Senate committee staff, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Bureau of Investigation, California Department of Justice).

 

I maintain the online resource page on the economics of privacy at http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/economics-privacy.htm.

Expert consultant in lawsuits cases involving economic aspects of privacy and personal information valuation.

Invited ENISA external expert, to review ENISA’s Economics of Privacy project.

Invited to join EPIC’s Amicus briefs, including EPIC Amicus Brief in Medical Record Data Mining Case.

Invited Lecturer at the iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3), the School of Information Sciences, the University of Pittsburgh, June 2011.

Meetings with ENISA on Trust and Privacy in the Future Internet, Crete, 2010.

Member of Scientific Committee, Master in eProcurement, Department of Economics and Business, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, 2007-present.

Member of PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies Committee, 2007, 2008.

Member of Harvard Berkman Center's Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative, 2009-present.

Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College Alumni Reunion. Moderator, Panel: "What does the government have a right to know about you? Technological Efficiency versus Privacy and Civil Liberties." Pittsburgh, PA, October 2004. 

Wombat Security Technologies Advisory Board member, 2009-present.

 

Digizen Advisory Board member, 2007-present.

Civic Science Advisory Board member, 2008-present.

Advisory Board member, EU Network of Excellence in Economics of Privacy.

Invited to collaborate to a BlueSky proposal for the National Aeronautics & Space Administration on Composing the Right Mix of Humans & Technology for Lunar Surface Exploration, 2007-2008.

Invited to participate as reviewer in the NSF Human-Centered Computing panel, 2008.

Invited participant in the NSF IIS-GENI Workshop, July 2008, Boston.

 

Invited to collaborate in privacy project for the Ontario Ministry of Health by the Privacy Centre of Excellence, Bell Enterprise Group, Bell Canada, 2008.

Invited to participate in the ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) special group on social networks and collaborate in the ENISA White Paper on "Security Issues and Recommendations for Online Social Networks," 2007.

 

Numerous presentations to executives from: myCFO, Ariba, Invus Group, and other organizations.

 

 

Other Professional Experiences

2001-2003

Visiting Student, NASA Ames Research Center, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science
Worked with Dr. Maarten Sierhuis and Dr. William Clancey as researcher and "Brahms" modeler (multi-agent simulation environment for Modeling, planning and simulating teamwork and work practices). Wrote language Tutorial now used by NASA and external researchers. Worked on models of the International Space Station (ISS) and the collaboration between the ISS crew and robotic assistants such as the PSA (Personal Satellite Assistant) and the Robonaut. Beta tested new components of the "Brahms" development suite and contributed to new language definitions and components. Reviewed external proposals seeking NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program funding.

2000-2003

Visiting Student, NASA Ames Research Center, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science
Worked with Dr. Maarten Sierhuis and Dr. William Clancey as researcher and "Brahms" modeler (multi-agent simulation environment for Modeling, planning and simulating teamwork and work practices). Wrote language Tutorial now used by NASA and external researchers. Worked on models of the International Space Station (ISS) and the collaboration between the ISS crew and robotic assistants such as the PSA (Personal Satellite Assistant) and the Robonaut. Beta tested new components of the "Brahms" development suite and contributed to new language definitions and components. Reviewed external proposals seeking NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program funding.

2000

Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems
Research assistant for Prof. Hal Varian, Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems. Worked on taxation of Internet commerce and Internet privacy.

2000-2003

Intern, Xerox PARC, Information Science and Technology Lab
Worked with the Internet Ecologies team and researched e-commerce competitive dynamics using computational methods and simulations. Supervisors: Prof. Bernardo Huberman and Dr. Tad Hogg.

1998

CEO and Cofounder, PGuardian Technologies, Inc. (2000-2001); Chief Architect (2002-2003)
Architect of core technology and business model for PGuardian Technologies, Inc., an electronic payment services provider offering privacy enhancing solutions. Designed protocols, patent applications, and developed alpha product. Supervised implementation and coordinated technology and business strategies.

1998-1999

Research Assistant, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics
Researched India exports to EU. Worked on macro policy aspects; prepared, administrated, and analyzed large trade dataset. Principal Investigator: Prof. Dermot McAleese.

1998

Director of E-commerce and UK Sales & Marketing, PPMusic.com
Managed e-commerce strategy and website development. Managed UK sales and marketing strategy and placed company's products with main music UK retailers (Borders UK and Tower Records). Board member, 1998-present.

1997-1998

Summer Associate, Market Analyst, J.P. Morgan
Worked with Emerging Markets Research (London). Developed applications and produced research on Russian external debt/ banking system for trading floor. Supervisors: Mr. Ed Bartholomew and Dr. Arnab Das.

1993-1995

Research Assistant, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics
Researched Russian labor dynamics. Member of TACIS/ACE funded project; traveled to Russia for data gathering; completed statistical and econometric analysis of large firm-level datasets. Principal Investigator: Prof. Hartmut Lehmann.

Production Assistant, CPA Edizioni Musicali
Responsible for the production of classical CDs for CPA Edizioni Musicali (then PPMusic.com). Assisted in recording, mastering, production and distribution.

 

 

Additional Education

2001

Santa Fe Institute Graduate Workshop on Computational Economics
Participant.

1997

Santa Fe Institute Graduate Workshop on Computational Economics
Participant.

1995-1996

Trinity College Dublin, School of Mathematics
Coursework in the M.Sc. in High Power Computing as a part of the Trinity College Foundation HPC Fellowship.

Trinity College Dublin, Business Economics and Social Studies
European Union "Erasmus" exchange Program.

1987-1991

Liceo Classico Tito Lucrezio Caro, Rome
Maturita' classica 60/60 (Classical studies): Latin, Greek, and Philosophy.

 

 

Misc

Music

SIAE Music and Lyrics Writer certifications.

SIAE Music and Lyrics Writer certifications.

Expertise in MIDI systems and KORG X series, Roland JV series.

Soundtrack and lyrics composer for theater, cinema, and television productions (BMG Ariola, RAI National Television).

Non Academic Books

"La Compagnia Poligonale," Collana I Piombi. Edizioni del Leone: Venice, IT, 1995.

Languages

Fluent in Italian and English. Some French, Latin, and classic Greek.

 

 

References

Prof. Mario Baldassarri
University of Rome. Former Italian Deputy Minister for Economics and Finance.

Prof. Mario Baldassarri
University of Rome. Former Italian Deputy Minister for Economics and Finance.

 

Prof. Hartmut Lehmann
Heriot Watt University, School of Management and Languages, Department of Economics.

 

Prof. Doug Tygar
UC Berkeley, Computer Science Department and School of Information Management and Systems.

 

Dean Hal R. Varian
UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems and Department of Economics.


 

Media (Interviews or citations; incomplete and rarely updated)

MIT Technology Review, Just How Much Is Your Privacy Worth?, 22-Mar-2012

NPR Marketplace Tech Report, Send a $5 gift card to your friend free? What’s the catch?, 1-May-2012

ABC Action News, Real-time face recognition comes to your iPhone camera, 12-Mar-2012

The Economist, Video and human rights, 12-Jan-2012

New York Times, The Post-Cash, Post-Credit-Card Economy, 28-Apr-2012

New York Times, Face Recognition Makes the Leap From Sci-Fi, 12-Nov-2011

Consumer Reports, Facebook and Your Privacy, June 2012.

The Economist, Technology and society: Here comes anyware, 8-Oct-2011

MIT Technology Review, With Big Data Comes Big Responsibilities, 5-Oct-2011

NPR Marketplace, 9/11's effect on tech, 2011

Marketplace Tech Report, Another goodbye to unlimited data, 2-Aug-2011

IEEE Spectrum, The Future of Riots, 28-Oct-2011.

Forbes Magazine, Hello Stranger, 11-Sep-2011

Wall Street Journal, Face-id tools pose new risk, 1-Aug-2011

The Economist, Anonymous No More, 30-Jul-2011

BBC News, Facial recognition marks the end of anonymity, 26-Sep-2011

NPR Marketplace Tech Report, Consumers are willing to pay more to protect their privacy online, 14-Jul-2011

Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, Protect Your Privacy Online, Jun-2011

NPR Marketplace Tech Report, How secure is the data you put online? No one really knows, 28-Apr-2011

Rai.tv, Radio interview, 21-Apr-2011

Blogs.forbes.com, Debix: Ten Percent of Children Are Victims of Identity Theft, 15-Apr-2011

MSNBC.com, Social media polarizes our privacy concerns, 10-Apr-2011

MSNBC.com, Why should I care about digital privacy?, 10-Apr-2011

Zeit Online, Gebt her Eure Daten!, 5-Apr-2011

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Next Page / Mega, Giga, Tera ... SUPER: Inside the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, 3-Apr-2011

CNET News, Privacy: Facebook's Achilles heel, 28-Mar-2011

Dartmouth Now, Conference Attracts Top Cyber Security Experts, 25-Mar-2011

CBS Pittsburgh, Company Fails To Protect Employees Confidential Data, 22-Mar-2011

Huffpost Education, Why Has Google Been Collecting Kids' Social Security Numbers Under the Guise of an Art Contest?, 22-Feb-2011

nymag.com, No Big Deal, But Google May Have Promoted a Contest to Get Kids Social Security Numbers [Updated], 22-Feb-2011

KQV News Radio, Radio interview with KQV news radio, 28-Jan-2011

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Loss of privacy highlights cost, CMU professor says, 27-Jan-2011

Kdka Pittsburgh Radio, Radio Interview with Robert Mancino, 27-Jan-2011

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Forum targets online privacy, 27-Jan-2011

Moneytalk Radio, Interview with Bob Brinker, 11-Jan-2011

Nikkei newspaper, Interview with Nikkei, 28-Dec-2010

Forsal.pl, Zuckerberg: Facebook to dopiero poczatek, 24-Dec-2010

Wissen.de, Das Web ist Zuckerberg nicht genug, 13-Dec-2010

Rai Uno, Radio interview, 12-Dec-2010

Financial Times, Facebooks grand plan for the future, 3-Dec-2010

ChinaBite.com, Internet privacy protection technology phased out, 24-Nov-2010

Technology Academics Policy (TAP), Alessandro Acquisti Discusses Privacy Attitudes and Behaviors, 22-Nov-2010

ZDNet, Social networks: A great place to mine your alleged security questions, 9-Nov-2010

Rai RadioUno, Radio interview, 30-Oct-2010

Lavanguardia.com, La web no olvida, 9-Oct-2010

RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Radio interview with Bubola Moira, 6-Oct-2010

NPR Marketplace Money, Why we give up our privacy so easily, 17-Sep-2010

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New network that takes on Facebook is project of 'casual' angel investment site, 16-Sep-2010

Blogs.forbes.com, Future of Privacy Forum Founder Does Not Expect Online Privacy Bills to Pass This Year, 15-Sep-2010

Tucson Weekly, Social Insecurity, 9-Sep-2010

Rainews24.it, Sulla rete piy sinceri sui siti meno "affidabili", 6-Sep-2010

Heise (Germany), US-Forscher untersuchen Vertrauensseligkeit im Netz, 6-Sep-2010

Technology Review, How Websites Make You Spill Your Secrets, 3-Sep-2010

The New York Times, Hinting That It’s Good to Be Bad, 30-Aug-2010

Stern.de, Freunde und Spione, 23-Aug-2010

The Red Tape Chronicles - MSNBC.com, Facebook Places: Be your friends' 'Big Brother'?, 23-Aug-2010

USNews.com, 10 Things You Didn't Know About Social Security, 9-Aug-2010

Ars Technica, Users are still idiots, cough up personal data despite warnings, Aug-10

La Stampa.it, Quanto vale la nostra privacy in rete?, 20-Jul-2010

The Motley Fool, Playing Google's Game, 20-Jul-2010

The New York Times, The Web Means the End of Forgetting, 19-Jul-2010

The New York Times, The Economics of Privacy Pricing, 19-Jul-2010

The New York Times, You Want My Personal Data? Reward Me for It, 16-Jul-2010

Kiplinger, Nine Easy Numbers Away From ID Theft, Jun-2010

English.news.cn, Online privacy protection caught in paradox, 28-Jun-2010

Semana.com, Alguien nos mira, 27-Jun-2010

Lanacion.com, El fin de la privacidad en Internet, 21-May-2010

La Repubblica.it, Facebook, l'amico-nemico "Troppi dati, disastro privacy", 21-May-2010

L'espresso Multimedia, Privacy e internet istruzioni per l'uso, Video Interview, 7-Apr-2010

The Tartan, Carnegie Mellon's Student Newspaper, Privacy nudges protect information, 22-Mar-2010

The Hindu (India), A bit at a time, privacy vanishes online, 18-Mar-2010

Yahoo Finance, How Privacy Vanishes Online, 17-Mar-2010

The New York Times, How Privacy Vanishes Online, 16-Mar-2010 (front page article, continued over the fold)

Pittsburgh Business Radio, Live Radio Interview with Mark De Santis, 12-Mar-2010

Carnegie Mellon Engineering, Carnegie Mellon CyLab Experts Host Industry and Security-Related Briefing In Silicon Valley , 5-Mar-2010

Taipei Times (Taipei), Redrawing the route to online privacy, 3-Mar-2010

The New York Times, Redrawing the Route to Online Privacy, 27-Feb-2010

SmartPlanet.com, Why it’s easier today for a thief to guess your nine digits, 2-Feb-2010

The Official Google Blog, Announcing Google's Focused Research Awards, 2-Feb-2010

Pittsburgh Business Times, CMU lands three Google research grants, 2-Feb-2010

news.cnet.com, It's been 10 years: Why won't people pay for privacy?, 28-Jan-2010

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Science Cafe' Event, Alessandro Acquisti - Protecting Privacy in a Public World - Part 2, 20-Jan-2010

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Science Cafe' Event, Alessandro Acquisti - Protecting Privacy in a Public World - Part 1, 20-Jan-2010

The Red Tape Chronicles - MSNBC.com, Facebook: The end of secrets?, 20-Jan-2010

CBS News, Your Digital Privacy: Already an Illusion?, 11-Jan-2010

Discover Magazine, Your Digital Privacy? It May Already Be an Illusion, 8-Jan-2010

Carnegie Mellon News Letter, Unknown title, 7-Jan-2010

The New York Times Magazine, Year in Ideas Issue, Reverse-Engineering Social Security Numbers, 13-Dec-2009

Cyblog, Significant Contribution of Carnegie Mellon Privacy Research Cited in Congressional Hearing, 20-Nov-2009

Heise (Germany), Unsichtbar auf Facebook, 9-Nov-2009

Heise (Germany), Anonym war gestern, 5-Nov-2009

Reader's Digest, SSN SOS, Oct-09

npr.org, Online Data Present A Privacy Minefield, Radio Interview, 26-Oct-2009

TechNewsWorld.com, Protecting Your Identity From Social Networking Shysters, 12-Oct-2009

AARP Bulletin today, Scam Alert: Protecting Your SSN, 12-Oct-2009

Red Tape Chronicles - MSNBC.com, What will talking power meters say about you?, 9-Oct-2009

Innovations-Report.com, Carnegie Mellon researchers fight phishing attacks with phishing tactics, 5-Oct-2009

MIT Technology Review, Privacy Plug-In Fakes out Facebook, 9-Sep-2009

Christian Science Monitor, How we're losing our privacy online, 31-Aug-2009

Eurogroup, Hacker italiani in scena a Las Vegas - parte I, 24-Aug-2009

The Dallas Morning News, Privacy fears aired about safety of Social Security data, 9-Aug-2009

Information-Security-Resources.com, Crooks Create Valid Social Security Numbers, 4-Aug-2009

TechnicalInfodotnet.blogspot, BlackHat and Defcon - Las Vegas'09, 2-Aug-2009

ilsole24ore.com, Hacker italiani in scena a Las Vegas, 1-Aug-2009

North American Professional Liability Insurance Agency (NAPLIA), Re-thinking how we guard our identities, Aug-09

The New Scientist (UK), Why social networks like their privacy policies private, 31-Jul-2009

Eugene Shteyn's Blog , Doing first, thinking ... maybe later, 31-Jul-2009

GovTechBlogs.com, Another Year @ Black Hat, 31-Jul-2009

NBC Chicago, It's Your Birthday? We've Got Your Number, 28-Jul-2009

CNN, Social Security number study raises fears, 28-Jul-2009

BroadbandBreakfast.com, Balancing Consumer Choice in the Information Privacy Debate, 25-Jul-2009

Wall Street Journal, Is Hiding Your Social Security Number Worth It?, 24-Jul-2009

Videnskab.dk, Forskere knfkker det amerikanske personnummer, 23-Jul-2009

SecurityPrivacyandtheLaw.com, Social Security Numbers (SSNs) Can Be Predicted Using Basic, Widely-Available Public Data. Social Security Administration Not Surprised, and Continues to Offer Detailed SSN Information to the Public, 22-Jul-2009

Digital Media Buzz, Cybercrime: Tipping the Black Hat, 22-Jul-2009

SmartMoney, Is Hiding Your Social Security Number Worth It?, 21-Jul-2009

Pittsburgh Post Gazette , Sharpening PIN choice good idea, experts say, 20-Jul-2009

ITBusinessEdge, Social Networks and Privacy, Redux, 17-Jul-2009

Bruce Schneier Blog, Privacy Salience and Social Networking Sites, 16-Jul-2009

networkworld.com, Guessable SSNs -- but is that the real problem?, 16-Jul-2009

Guardian.co.uk (UK), Facebook should compete on privacy, not hide it away, 15-Jul-2009

slate.com, No, You Can't Have My Social Security Number, 14-Jul-2009

Pittsburgh Post Gazette , PINs and passwords: Experts offer tips on how not to be an easy target, 13-Jul-2009

FleetOwner.com, Protecting data, 13-Jul-2009

USNews.com, How Safe is Your Social Security Number?, 10-Jul-2009

Security Management, Congress May Have Inadvertently Made Identity Theft Easier, Researcher Says, 10-Jul-2009

Network World Podcast, No security in Social Security, 10-Jul-2009

CNN Situation Room, Dr. Alessandro Acquisti appears on CNN's "Situation Room", Video Interview, 9-Jul-2009

Wall Street Journal Blogs, How Social-Networking Sites Can Reveal Your Social Security Number, 9-Jul-2009

NewScientist, Botnets could hijack your social security number, 8-Jul-2009

V3.co.uk, Researchers crack Social Security number code, 8-Jul-2009

time.com, Is Your Facebook Account a Gold Mine for Identity Thieves?, 8-Jul-2009

switched.com, Researchers Guess Social Security Numbers With Help of Social Networks, 8-Jul-2009

PoynterOnline, Researchers Find Way to Figure out People's Social Security Numbers, 8-Jul-2009

infosecurity-us.com, Social security numbers guessable, say academics, 8-Jul-2009

examiner.com, Social Security numbers: Good chance they can be predicted, 8-Jul-2009

securitywatch.eweek.com, Social Security Numbers Not as Safe as We Thought?, 8-Jul-2009

CBR Security, Social Security numbers can be predicted from public data: report, 8-Jul-2009

Punto Informatico (Italy), USA, a rischio le password finanziarie, 8-Jul-2009

DevCentral.f5.com, Attacking Social Security Numbers (SSN): Social Engineering via Social Networking, 8-Jul-2009

Boston Herald, Cracking Social Security number easy, 7-Jul-2009

walletpop.com, One in 10 social security numbers guessed with public info, 7-Jul-2009

upi.com, Social Security numbers can be guessed, 7-Jul-2009

The Tech Herald, Social Security Numbers have always been at risk - so why the sudden panic?, 7-Jul-2009

The Register (UK), Boffins guess social security numbers via public data||Success rate as high as 90%, 7-Jul-2009

Thaindian News, Vulnerable Social Security Number Code Cracked, 7-Jul-2009

TG Daily, Social Security numbers can be cracked by fraudsters, 7-Jul-2009

stltoday.com, What does a predictable SSN code mean for your identity?, 7-Jul-2009

Security Management, Social Security Numbering System Leaves Public Vulnerable, 7-Jul-2009

Science Daily, Social Security Numbers Can Be Predicted With Public Information, 7-Jul-2009

redOrbit.com, Social Security Numbers Predicted Using Public Information, 7-Jul-2009

marketplace.publicradio.org, Guessing your Social, 7-Jul-2009

Pre-employ.com, Data Privacy Alert: Researchers Find Social Security Numbers Can Be Predicted, 7-Jul-2009

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Number crunchers crack Social Security code, 7-Jul-2009

pcworld.com, Researchers Expose Security Flaw in Social Security Numbers, 7-Jul-2009

PCMAG.com, Social Security Numbers ID'd Using Public Data, 7-Jul-2009

NYDailyNews.com, Study: Social Security numbers can be predicted using public information, 7-Jul-2009

nextgov.com, Social Security numbers fall out of favor as personal identifiers, 7-Jul-2009

The New Scientist (UK), Social security flaw leaves way open for cyber-theft, 7-Jul-2009

Network World, Protecting Social Security numbers online is a futile exercise, 7-Jul-2009

minyanville.com, Your Social Security Number Revealed to Be Easy to Guess, 7-Jul-2009

metro.us, Social Security guessing game, 7-Jul-2009

Los Angeles Times, Social Security number system may be vulnerable, 7-Jul-2009

internetnews.com, Is Your Social Security Number Predictable?, 7-Jul-2009

InformationWeek, Social Security Number Prediction Makes Identity Theft Easy, 7-Jul-2009

geek.com, Social Security numbering system almost cracked!, 7-Jul-2009

FoxNews.com, Social Security Numbers Easy to Guess, Study Claims, 7-Jul-2009

fiercegovernmentit.com, Social Security numbers ripe for fraud, 7-Jul-2009

examiner.com, Jesus could guess your social security number (SSN) more accurately than Carnegie Mellon U, 7-Jul-2009

domain-b.com, Social Security numbering system not impregnable: US researchers, 7-Jul-2009

Docuticker, Predicting Social Security numbers from public data, 7-Jul-2009

Digital Journal, Study: Social security numbers in U.S. not as secure as you think, 7-Jul-2009

DbTechNo, Wanna Guess my Social Security Number?, 7-Jul-2009

csoonline.com, Report: Social Security Numbers Easy to Guess, 7-Jul-2009

crunchgear.com, Let’s guess each other’s Social Security Numbers, for fun, 7-Jul-2009

ComputerWorld, Study: Social Security numbers are predictable, 7-Jul-2009

CNN, Report: Social Security numbers can be predicted, 7-Jul-2009

bloomberg.com, Inside Look - Social Security Numbers Predictable?, 7-Jul-2009

Blogger News Network, Social Security Numbers Cracked, Creates Identity Theft Risk, 7-Jul-2009

All Headline News, Researchers Say Change Needed After Program Predicts SSNs, 7-Jul-2009

Wisconsin Technology Network, Carnegie Mellon researchers find social security numbers can be predicted with public information, 7-Jul-2009

Watching the Watchers, Researchers Find Social Security Numbers Can Be Guessed, 7-Jul-2009

topnews.us, Report: Statistical techniques can help predict Social Security numbers, 7-Jul-2009

Rian.ru (Russia), [About SSN predictability], 7-Jul-2009

Tech Fragments, Social Security Numbering System Cracked, 7-Jul-2009

SearchSecurity.com, Researchers predict SSNs, crack algorithm putting identities at risk, 7-Jul-2009

news.softpedia.com, Social Security Numbers Can Be Predicted Using Public Information, 7-Jul-2009

AolNews.com, Can Social Security Numbers Be Guessed?, 7-Jul-2009

gizmodo.com, Fraud Protection Algorithm Breeds Method to Guess SSN Using Personal Details, 7-Jul-2009

The Consumerist, Some SSNs Can Be Guessed Using Birthdate And Location, Say Researchers, 7-Jul-2009

blogs.siliconvalley.com, Uh-oh - this carnival has a “Guess Your Weight and SSN” booth, 7-Jul-2009

Discover Magazine, Researchers Guess Social Security Numbers From Public Data, 7-Jul-2009

USNews.com, Social Security Number Code Cracked, Study Claims, 6-Jul-2009

Slashdot, Your Rights Online: Social Security Numbers Can Be Guessed, 6-Jul-2009

wired.com, Social Security Numbers Deduced From Public Data, 6-Jul-2009

Washington Post , Researchers: Social Security Numbers Can Be Guessed, 6-Jul-2009

Suffolk News-Herald, Protect your personal information, 6-Jul-2009

Realtime-ITCompliance.com, Study Proves SSNs Are Easily Guessed; Don't Use SSNs To Verify Identity Or As Passwords!, 6-Jul-2009

The New York Times, Weakness in Social Security Numbers Is Found, 6-Jul-2009

npr.org, Study: Social Security Numbers May Be Hackable, 6-Jul-2009

Berkley Center for Law & Technology, Social Security Numbers Are Easy to Guess , 6-Jul-2009

The Inquisitr, Your Social Security Number: More social, less secure, 6-Jul-2009

CGISecurity.com, Social Security Numbers Can Be Extrapolated From Public Data, 6-Jul-2009

fastcompany.com, On Facebook? New Algorithm Can Guess Your SSN, 6-Jul-2009

Daily Kos, Social Security # Analysis Emphasizes Need for Reform, 6-Jul-2009

Cyblog, There is an Elephant in the Room; & Everyone’s Social Security Numbers are Written on Its Hide, 6-Jul-2009

Bloomberg.com, Social Security Numbers Can Be Guessed From Data, Study Finds, 6-Jul-2009

Red Tape Chronicles - MSNBC.com, Researchers say they can guess your SSN, 6-Jul-2009

cnet.com, Report: Social Security numbers can be predicted, 6-Jul-2009

MichaelZimmer.org, Report: Predicting Social Security Numbers from Public Data, 6-Jul-2009

Christian Science Monitor, How to figure out someone's social security number, 6-Jul-2009

Emergent Chaos (Blog on esecurity, privacy, liberty, and economics), Social Security Numbers are Worthless as Authenticators, 6-Jul-2009

Ars Technica, New algorithm guesses SSNs using date and place of birth, 6-Jul-2009

ABC News /Technology, Social Security Number Code Cracked, Study Claims, 6-Jul-2009

Forbes.com, Leaving Friendprints, 16-Jun-2009

Knowledge@Wharton, Leaving 'Friendprints': How Online Social Networks Are Redefining Privacy and Personal Security, 10-Jun-2009

Red Tape Chronicles - MSNBC.com, Why give up privacy? Because everyone else is!, 1-May-2009

Centre de Ressources des EPN de Wallonie, Facebook : comment protiger votre identiti ? 13 tutoriels, 20-Apr-2009

Tribune Review, Online social sites good tool for police, 8-Mar-2009

CNET News, Lawmaker: Consumers need details in data breach warnings, 6-Mar-2009

Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Facebook does an about face on privacy changes, 19-Feb-2009

ilsole24ore.com, La faccia nascosta di Facebook, 19-Feb-2009

out-law.com, Why security breach notification laws are a good thing, 17-Feb-2009

Bruce Schneier’s Crypto-Gram Newsletter, Breach Notification Laws, 15-Feb-2009

Msbnc.com, Dial-a-recall? Stores use cards to warn buyers, 23-Jan-2009

Scientific American Magazine, How to Foil "Phishing" Scams, 3-Dec-2008

Wall Street Journal, New Data Privacy Laws Set For Firms, 16-Oct-2008

networkworld.com, WEIS 2008: Do data-breach-disclosure laws reduce identity theft?, 29-Jul-2008

BusinessWeek, "True Confessions", True Confessions, 28-Jul-2008

Washington Post, A Flashy Facebook Page, at a Cost to Privacy||Add-Ons to Online Social Profiles Expose Personal Data to Strangers, 12-Jul-2008

Red Tape Chronicles - MSNBC.com, How magic might finally fix your computer, 7-Jul-2008

The New York Times, Our Paradoxical Attitudes Toward Privacy, 2-Jul-2008

New York Times, Bits, Our Paradoxical Attitudes Toward Privacy, 2-Jul-2008

SecurityFocus, Breach-notification laws not working?, 25-Jun-2008

The Washington Post, Face like an open book, 23-Jun-2008 (front page article)

NPR Fresh Air, Science Friday, Getting booked by Facebook, Mar-08

spectrum.ieee.org, Data Theft by Partner Companies on the Rise, Sep-08

Computer World, Researchers say notification laws not lowering ID theft, 8-Jun-08

Ephemerallaw (Blog about the law surrounding Information Security and Data Privacy), Always Go With the Original, 17-Jun-2008

The Dunning Letter (Advocates for granting consumers control over their names and personal data), New Research Study Faults State Data Breach Notification Laws, 12-Jun-2008

Prometheus6.org, That's partly because they're stealing them in bulk now, 9-Jun-2008

Network World Information Security Newsletter, WEIS 2008: Do data-breach disclosure laws reduce identity theft? , 9-Jun-2008

Seclists.org, Breach disclosure laws have 'no effect' on identity theft, 9-Jun-2008

SearchSecurity.com, Data breach laws have no effect on prevention, researchers say, 9-Jun-2008

arstechnica.com, Study: Data theft notification laws not stopping data theft, 9-Jun-2008

Slashdot, ID Theft In US Continues Apace Despite Data Breach Laws, 8-Jun-2008

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Online shoppers will pay for security, 8-Jun-2008

freerepublic.com, Data Breaches and Perceived Liability, 8-Jun-2008

Slashdot, ID Theft In US Continues Apace Despite Data Breach Laws, 8-Jun-2008

communities.hp.com, Data Breach Disclosure Laws Are Not so Effective in Reducing Identity Theft …, 7-Jun-2008

ComputerWorld (Australia), Researchers say notification laws in US not lowering ID theft, 6-Jun-2008

techworld.com.au, Researchers: Notification Laws Not Lowering ID Theft, 6-Jun-2008

h-online.com, Effectiveness of data breach disclosure contested, 6-Jun-2008

Data Breach Watch, Notification not reducing ID theft, 6-Jun-2008

Infosecurity.us, Carnegie Mellon: Mandated Data Breach Disclosure Effectiveness Questioned, 6-Jun-2008

The Register (UK), Breach disclosure laws have 'no effect' on identity theft||Red tape failing to stanch losses, 5-Jun-2008

SANS Newsbites Vol X, Issue 45, Number of Identity Theft Reports Unaffected by Breach Notification Laws, 5-Jun-2008

networkworld.com, So much for those data breach notification laws, 5-Jun-2008

macworld.com, Researchers: Notification Laws Not Lowering ID Theft, 5-Jun-2008

ITBusinessEdge, Laws Not Reducing ID Theft, Says Carnegie Mellon, 5-Jun-2008

infoworld.com, Researchers: Notification Laws Not Lowering ID Theft, 5-Jun-2008

InfoSecNews.org, Breach disclosure laws have 'no effect' on identity theft, 5-Jun-2008

id-theftprotect.com, US notification laws not working, 5-Jun-2008

csoonline.com, Researchers: Notification Laws Not Lowering ID Theft, 5-Jun-2008

computerworld.com, Researchers: Notification Laws Not Lowering ID Theft, 5-Jun-2008

central-it.de, Researchers: Notification Laws Not Lowering ID Theft, 5-Jun-2008

IDG News Service, Researchers say notification laws not lowering ID theft, 5-Jun-2008

ABC News, Researchers Say Notification Laws Not Lowering ID Theft, 5-Jun-2008

ABC News /Technology, Researchers say notification laws in US not lowering ID theft, 5-Jun-2008

The Register (UK), Breach disclosure laws have 'no effect' on identity theft, 5-Jun-2008

pcworld.com, Researchers: Notification Laws Not Lowering ID Theft, 4-Jun-2008

networkworld.com, Researchers: Notification Laws Not Lowering ID Theft, 4-Jun-2008

Fergie's Tech Blog , Researchers Say Notification Laws Are Not Lowering ID Theft Incidents, 4-Jun-2008

Washington Post, A Flashy Facebook Page, at a Cost to Privacy, 1-Jun-2008

Emergent Chaos (Blog on esecurity, privacy, liberty, and economics), Please read more carefully, 23-May-2008

NBC News, Study: Loyalty cards allow corporations to track buyers, TV Interview, 23-May-2008

Slate.com, Credit Card Numbers for Sale, 24-Apr-2008

Networkworld.com, 25 leading-edge IT research projects, 18-Apr-2008

MSNBC.com, EU strikes a blow against data hoarding, 11-Apr-2008

Science Friday, Online Privacy, 21-Mar-2008

Newsweek, Protect the Willfully Ignorant, 15-Mar-2008

MIT Technology Review, Maintaining Multiple Personas Online, 11-Feb-2008

Faz.net, Ich zeige alles von mir, 14-Jan-2008

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Online revelations, 28-Dec-2007

Tribune Review, Online revelations, 28-Dec-2007

The New York Times, On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data, 17-Dec-2007

radar.oreilly.com, Accessibility: the problems, 14-Dec-2007

MIT Technology Review, Evolving Privacy Concerns, 11-Dec-2007

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Web tool detects something phishy, 11-Dec-2007

MediaPost.com, EU Calls for Closer Look at Privacy and Social Networks, 5-Dec-2007

PricewaterHouseCoopers' View, People value privacy - or do they?, Feb-07

Sci-Tech-Today.com, EU Criticizes Social Networks for Privacy Flaws, 4-Dec-2007

Carlos Moreira Internet Journal, Privacy is key to new social networking site, Kaioo, 3-Dec-2007

The New York Times, Privacy is key to new social networking site, Kaioo, 2-Dec-2007

Linkedin, ENISA Position Paper, 2-Dec-2007

en.europa-eu-audience, Wiki : Public Consultation for Social Networks, 23-Nov-2007

Spiegel Online Netzwelt (Germany), Die Gefahren des sozialen Netzes, 23-Nov-2007

The News Atlantis (A Journal of Technology & Society), Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism, 17-Nov-2007

mad.co.uk (UK), New era of advertising hinges on the free flow of information, 15-Nov-2007

Unit Structures, News and Notes, 12-Nov-2007

European Commission, The challenge of making social networks safe, 8-Nov-2007

Network World, Carnegie Mellon University research suggests users ignore antiphishing material, 8-Nov-2007

Internet: Marketing and Messages, ENISA Position Paper : Security Issues and Recommendations for Online Social Networks, 5-Nov-2007

Digg.com, Online social networks: security issues, 4-Nov-2007

networkworld.com, Online privacy policies need work, advocates say, 2-Nov-2007

Contingency Today (UK), EU warns on MySpace & Facebook security fears, 2-Nov-2007

EurActiv.com (Belgium), Sicuriti sur Internet : l’agence de l’UE a des vues sur + MySpace ;, 1-Nov-2007

EurActiv.com (Belgium), EU web security watchdog sets sights on 'MySpace', 1-Nov-2007

Liquid Matrix Security Digest, Social Networking Sites: Threats And Remedies, 27-Oct-2007

Buziaulane, Social network security, 26-Oct-2007

Sueddeutsche.de (Germany), Auch du bist drin, 26-Oct-2007

ComputerWeekly.com (UK), Spies threaten Facebookers, 25-Oct-2007

networkworld.com, Antiphishing education requires real-world techniques, 8-Oct-2007

Science Daily , Fight Phishing Attacks With Phishing Tactics -- It Works, 4-Oct-2007

United Press International, Scientists fight phishing with phishing, 3-Oct-2007

Journal Sentinel, Getting booked by Facebook, 3-Oct-2007

ibls.com, EUROPE: How Safe is ‘Social Networking’?, 1-Oct-2007

Portal IT, Romania , Anti-Phishing Game To Help Raise Awareness, 1-Oct-2007

ScienceDaily.com, Online Game Helps People Recognize Internet Scams, 28-Sep-2007

Associated Content, CO , Carnegie Mellon's Online Game Helps People Recognize Internet Scams, Phishing, 28-Sep-2007

VNUNet.com, UK , Carnegie Mellon floats anti-phishing game, 26-Sep-2007

The Tartan, Carnegie Mellon's Student Newspaper, Facebook listings take on the World [Wide Web], 24-Sep-2007

Boston globe, The advantages of amnesia, 23-Sep-2007

backbonemag.com, Your next big prospect is at LinkedIn or Facebook, 7-Sep-2007

wired.com, The Privacy Market Has Many Sellers, but Few Buyers, 3-Sep-2007

Wired.com, The Privacy Market Has Many Sellers, but Few Buyers, 3-Sep-2007

dmnews.com, Enhanced privacy measures might produce bigger profits, 10-Aug-2007

The Associated Press, School Conducts Anti-Phishing Research, 22-Jul-2007

networkworld.com, Is securing your network worth the money?, 3-Jul-2007

wired.com, Private Facebook Pages Are Not So Private, 28-Jun-2007

Wired.com, Private Facebook Pages Are Not So Private, 28-Jun-2007

CNET News, Perspective: Paying for online privacy, 20-Jun-2007

theregister.co.uk, Better privacy policies can make money, finds P3P study Privacy guaranteed?, 12-Jun-2007

The Consumerist, Are You Willing To Pay More For Privacy?, 9-Jun-2007

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Online Shoppers will Pay for Security, 8-Jun-2007

Pittsburgh Post Gazette , Online shoppers will pay for security, 8-Jun-2007

sciencedaily.com, Online Shoppers Will Pay Extra To Protect Privacy, Carnegie Mellon Study Shows, 7-Jun-2007

digitaltrends.com, E-Commerce Thrives on Search and Privacy, 7-Jun-2007

darkreading.com, Privacy Premium Doesn't Faze Buyers, 7-Jun-2007

CNET News, Study: Shoppers will pay for privacy, 7-Jun-2007

BBC News, Good privacy pays for web stores, 7-Jun-2007

arstechnica.com, Americans willing to pay (a little) more for privacy, 7-Jun-2007

Slashdot, Online Shoppers are Willing to Pay More for Privacy, 6-Jun-2007

CMU News, Online Shoppers Will Pay Extra To Protect Privacy, Carnegie Mellon Study Shows, 6-Jun-2007

Red Tape Chronicles - MSNBC.com, Price of privacy depends on how you look at it, 5-Jun-2007

Channel Register (UK), Zero-day sales not 'fair' - to researchers, 3-Jun-2007

MSNBC.com, Price of privacy depends on how you look at it, 3-Jun-2007

SecurityFocus, Zero-day sales not 'fair' - to researchers, 1-Jun-2007

BBC News, Good privacy pays for web stores, 1-Jun-2007

Medical News Today, Data Security And Privacy - What Is It Worth?, 29-May-2007

Post Gazette, New technology minimizes privacy, 8-Apr-2007

Sueddeutsche.de (Germany), Und ewig lockt das Web, 14-Dec-2006

ISACA Roma Newsletter (in Italian and English), Privacy in the Digital Age, 1-Dec-2006

Money 101 on KNX 1070 radio (Southern California), Interview with Bob McCormick, 16-Nov-2006

MSNBC.com, Privacy under attack, but does anybody care?, 17-Oct-2006

CMU Piper, Does What Happens on Facebook Stay on Facebook?, 6-Oct-2006

Pittsburgh Post Gazette , Bits & Bytes: Wizzard Software scoops up Blast Podcast, Switchpod.com, 30-Sep-2006

The Tartan, Carnegie Mellon's Student Newspaper, CMU researches Facebook privacy as site goes global, 18-Sep-2006

The New Scientist (UK), Living online: The end of privacy?, 18-Sep-2006

Baylor Business Review, CRM & Privacy: How much do companies need to know about their customers?, 13-Sep-2006

ZDNET, Should companies care about privacy breaches?, 30-Jul-2006

IT News (Australia), Study finds security breaches affect on shares, 5-Jul-2006

Microsoft EMEA Press Center Microsoft, Privacy Research: New Advances, New Perspectives, 28-Jun-2006

The Tartan, Carnegie Mellon's Student Newspaper, Facebook filled with interest and ignorance, 3-Apr-2006

ISACA (Serving IT Governance Professionals, Privacy in the Digital Age, 12-Jan-2006

MSNBC.com, Researchware watches where you click, 20-Apr-2005

Communications of the ACM, July 2005, 48(7)., NewsTrack, Jul-05

MSNBC.com, They know what we are listening to, 4-Mar-2005

AScribe Newswire, Carnegie Mellon University: Voting for Reliability, 23-Aug-2004

Scientific Computing, Social Security Number Vulnerability Findings Relied on Supercomputing

Projects in Scientific Computing, With data-intensive computing on PSC’s Pople, Carnegie Mellon researchers expose vulnerability in online information

Digital Destiny (Jeff Chester Reports on Digital Media and the Public Interest), EC Enisa Report Underscores Privacy Threats and other Risks from Social Networks: Wake-Up Time for Facebook, MySpace, IAB, FTC, Congress. Rules & Safeguards Required

Cylab News, CyLab Researcher’s Study Shows Social Security Numbers Can Be Predicted from Publicly Available Information

Cylab News, Do Notification Laws Impact Identity Theft?

CMU.edu, Carnegie Mellon researchers find social security numbers can be predicted with public information

CMU.edu, Public Info Makes SSN Predictable

cmu.edu, Anti-Phishing Game Teaches Cybersecurity

CERT Podcast, Privacy: The Slow Tipping Point.

UC Berkeley CITRIS - Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, 2002, Reading between the links