Metrics

This project seeks to aid the security research community in conducting and reporting methodologically sound science through (1) development, refinement, and use of community-based security research guidelines; and (2) characterization of the security literature based upon those guidelines.

One major shortcoming of the current "notice and consent" privacy framework is that the constraints for data usage stated in policies--be they stated privacy practices, regulation, or laws--cannot easily be compared against the technologies that they govern. To that end, we are developing a framework to automatically compare policy against practice. Broadly, this involves identifying the relevant data usage policies and practices in a given domain, then measuring the real-world exchanges of data restricted by those rules.