RESEARCH & POLICY NOTES

• Engagement: CITP Interim Director Prateek Mittal invites you to join us for the Center for Information Technology Policy’s 2023 Distinguished Lecture Series. It kicks off Wednesday, Feb.15, with Cornell University Professor Jon Kleinberg. Find details on our Lectures page.
• Training: CITP Data Scientist Amy Winecoff taught Introduction to Machine Learning for Humanities as part of the Jan. 9-13 Humanities and Data Science Institute offered by the Center for Digital Humanities. The course introduced humanities scholars to technical concepts in data science and machine learning that could complement their existing research methodologies. Winecoff, on Jan. 19, also taught Evaluating and Improving Machine Learning Models as a part of Princeton's Wintersession 2023.
• Policy: CITP Professor Jonathan Mayer testified on Jan. 12 at the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board’s public forum on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Section 702, which is set to expire in December, authorizes the government to collect the communications – such as emails and phone calls – of non-Americans outside the United States. The Board seeks to protect the privacy and civil liberties of Americans when 702 is enforced. In his testimony, Mayer cited Estimating Incidental Collection in Foreign Intelligence Surveillance: Large-Scale Multiparty Private Set Intersection with Union and Sum, a paper he co-authored with CITP graduate researcher Anunay Kulshrestha. Members of the Board include CITP Founder Ed Felten and CITP Advisory Council member Travis LeBlanc. View Mayer's testimony below.

TECH TALKS

• CITP Emerging Scholar Christelle Tessono spoke on a Dec. 21 panel Legal and Policy Implications of Canada's Proposed Artificial Intelligence Law.
• CITP researchers Jonathan Mayer and Katrina Ligett both spoke in October at the Human and Societal Aspects in Computing symposium at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy. Ligett’s talk was titled, “Data Privacy is Important, but it’s not Enough,” while Mayer spoke on “Countering Misinformation on Platforms: What Actually Works.
• Ligett also gave a talk, “Data Privacy is Important, But It’s Not Enough,” at the University of Pennsylvania as the 2022 Grace Hopper Distinguished Lecture speaker on Nov. 29.

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Tuesday, Jan. 31, CITP Seminar: Diag Davenport – Human Bias and Social Algorithms, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 306 Sherrerd Hall
• Tuesday, Feb. 7, CITP Seminar: Maria Apostolaki – It Takes Two to Tango: Cooperative Edge-to-Edge Routing,12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 306 Sherrerd Hall
• Wednesday, Feb. 15, CITP Distinguished Lecture Series: Jon Kleinberg – The Challenge of Understanding What Users Want: Inconsistent Preferences and Engagement Optimization, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m., Friend Center Convocation Room
• Wednesday, Feb. 22, CITP Distinguished Lecture Series: Thomas Ristenpart – Mitigating Technology Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence and Encrypted Messaging, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m., Friend Center Convocation Room
• Wednesday, Jan. 25, Professor Arvind Narayanan, a member of the CITP faculty, will be a discussant at Stanford University's Tanner Lecture, AI and Human Values, by Seth Lazar.

BOOKS & BYLINES

• CITP researchers Klaudia Jaźwińska, Matthew Sun, Sayash Kapoor and Mona Wang co-authored Through the Wire The new world of remote work is changing the way that tech workers organize, an article published in Logic Magazine. The piece is based on their research paper, Weaving Privacy and Power: On the Privacy Practices of Labor Organizers in the U.S. Technology Industry.

• Partisanship is not the only “logic” informing Americans’ attitudes toward social groups, an article co-authored by CITP Fellow Jordan Brensinger, appeared in The London School of Economics and Political Science website. It is based on his research paper, Party, Race, and Neutrality: Investigating the Interdependence of Attitudes toward Social Groups.

• Data journalists learn from photojournalists, an article by Surya Mattu, the Lead for CITP’s Digital Witness Lab, was published in December as part of the Neiman Lab series on journalism predictions for 2023.

• CITP Associated Faculty member Jennifer Rexford, the Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor in Engineering, co-authored, Mother Nature’s 7 Lessons for a Safer World, an article that examines strategies for defending the human immune system from attacks.

MEDIA MENTIONS

• 🎧Sociology Professor Matthew Salganik, a member of CITP’s associated faculty, was featured in The Present & Future of Computational Social Science, an episode of Mathmatica’s On The Evidence podcast.
• CITP Associated Faculty member Olga Russakovsky, an assistant professor of computer science who researches computer vision, was featured in ‘Learning to see and learning to read’: Artificial intelligence enters a new era, a feature story from the Office of the Dean of Research highlighting the work of several Princeton researchers. Also quoted was CITP Associated Faculty member Jennifer Rexford, the Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering.
• 🎧CITP Associated Faculty member Andrés Monroy-Hernández was featured in Social Computing w/ Dr. Andrés Monroy-Hernández, an episode of The Daily Princetonian podcast, “Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond.”
• CITP Graduate Student Sayash Kapoor and Computer Science Professor Arvind Narayanan were quoted in The reproducibility issues that haunt health-care AI, an article in Nature.
• CITP Tech Policy Clinic Lead Mihir Kshirsagar was quoted in What Privacy Experts Do About Their Own Digital Privacy, in Consumer Reports.
• CITP Fellow Shazeda Ahmed was quoted in the South China Morning Post article, How China’s social credit system actually works – it’s probably not how you think.
• CITP Associated Faculty member Ruha Benjamin was quoted in Algorithms can help us combat racial bias – if we use them wisely, an article in Scienceline.
• CITP Interim Director Prateek Mittal was quoted in Annoying CAPTCHA is still big for Google and e-commerce in bot battle, and likely to stay that way, a CNBC story.
• CITP Computer Science Professor Arvind Narayanan was quoted in Abstracts written by ChatGPT fool scientists, an article in Nature.

🎉🎉 KUDOS 🎉🎉

Roberts follows in the footsteps of her sister, Laura M. Roberts, a CITP-affliliate who graduated from Princeton in 2020 with a Ph.D. in computer science. Her advisor was CITP Founder Ed Felten. In 2019, Princeton profiled the two sisters in a video and news feature, Princeton Profiles: Roberts sisters study how to make the internet fairer and safer.