Visible to the public Contextual Integrity for Computer Systems - October 2022Conflict Detection Enabled

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

Ero Balsa and Helen Nissenbaum "Privacy risk assessments: Sites of discretion, pseudoscience and performative compliance." In, Proceedings of the Workshop on Privacy Threat Modeling. August 7-9, 2022, Boston, MA, United States

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

We continued to applied CI to systematically analyze NIST's "PRAM" (short for "Privacy Risk Assessment Methodology"), presenting findings to NIST.

We also continued the work on understanding misconceptions of differential privacy.

We have explored ways in which contexts can overlap, for example, how a military chaplain acts within two contexts.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS

During a stay at the Simons Institute (July 25 -- 29) as a participant of a research cluster on AI and Humanity, presented ongoing work on privacy risk assessments (July 26) and discussed with other participants.

On August 7, presented a paper at the Workshop on Privacy Threat Modeling and held discussions with participants about our results and contributions.

"Privacy risk assessments: Sites of discretion, pseudoscience and performative compliance." Presented at the Workshop on Privacy Threat Modeling. August 7-9, 2022, Boston, MA, United States

"...contextual Integrity is the worst definition of privacy, except for all the others that have been tried...", Invited Talk, Joint Meeting of the UK Competition and Markets Authority and Data Markets Unit, August 16 2022

On August 31, presented our analysis of NIST's PRAM to Naomi Lefkovitz, Senior Privacy Policy Advisor and Lead for the Privacy Framework at NIST, and held a brief discussion about our results.

4th Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity, September 22-23, Cornell Tech, New York City. Convened ~70 researchers to present research applications of Contextual Integrity

EDUCATIONAL ADVANCES