Contextual Integrity for Computer Systems - January 2019

PI(s), Co-PI(s), Researchers: Michael Tschantz (ICSI), Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech)

HARD PROBLEM(S) ADDRESSED
Scalability and Composability, Policy-Governed Secure Collaboration

PUBLICATIONS

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

Michael Tschantz (ICSI) has started to translate the concept of context into a formal representation with guidance from Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech). The current focus is on how a context can be formed by smaller "sub-contexts" composed together. Our working hypothesis is that the "values" of a sub-context may come from the purpose of the super-context.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS

Helen hosted a symposium on Contextual Integrity at Princeton, where many of these issues were discussed.

She also gave the following talks:

"Achieving Meaningful Privacy in Design and Technology," Workshop on Privacy in Context, ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Jersey City, November 2018.

"Achieving Meaningful Privacy in Digital Systems," Keynote Address, ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Toronto, October 2018.

"Data and the Public Good: Game Over?," Normative Ethics and Welfare Economics Conference, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, October 2018.

"Contextual Integrity Up and Down the Data (Food) Chain," IC Colloquia, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, October 2018.

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