Subject to time constraints, I'm generally willing to speak on one of these topics. Email me for an appointment.
| Title | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Data Privacy Technologies: From Alchemy to an Engineering Discipline ("job talk") | Various | Ongoing |
| Is Writing Style Sufficient to Deanonymize Material Posted Online? | 2012 Security Workshop, Stanford Computer Forum | Apr 2, 2012 |
| A Whirlwind Tour of Inference Algorithms for Breaching Confidentiality | Center for the Study of Global Financial Stability, Penn State University | Mar 15, 2012 |
| On the Feasibility of Internet-scale Author Identification | PARC, Palo Alto | Feb 9, 2012 |
| Privacy and Anonymity in a World of Interconnected Data | TASC, Mountain View | Dec 13 2011 |
| Why Online Tracking is Worse Than You Thought, and Why We Need Do Not Track Video on Youtube ↗ | Governance of Social Media Workshop, Washington D.C. | Nov 11 2011 |
| Location Privacy via Private Proximity Testing | Syschat, UMD College Park | Nov 9 2011 |
| Online Tracking: A Diagnosis and Some Prescriptions | ECE 18-739, CMU Silicon Valley | Oct 27 2011 |
| Adnostic and Friends: The Past, Present and Future of Privacy Intermediaries | Technicolor Research, Palo Alto | Aug 24 2011 |
| Can We Do Meaningful Deidentification of Medical Data? (Panel) | HealthSec 2011, San Francisco | Aug 9 2011 |
| Link Prediction by De-anonymization: How We Won the Kaggle Social Network Challenge | IJCNN, San Jose | Aug 5 2011 |
| The Do Not Track Cookbook | Stanford Law School CIS Affiliates Meeting | Aug 1 2011 |
| Physically Unclonable Functions: PUFs of smoke? | Stanford Security Seminar | Jul 29 2011 |
| Online Tracking and Defenses: Technology, Economics, Policy | WiTAP: Workshop on Internet Tracking, Advertising, and Privacy, Stanford | Jul 22 2011 |
| The Failure of Data Anonymization and What to Do About It | Nokia / NSN privacy network (remote talk) | Jun 6 2011 |
| Rethinking Privacy: A Multidisciplinary Perspective | Yahoo Security Week | Apr 28 2011 |
| Tracking on the Internet and Do Not Track | Stanford Computer Forum: 2011 Security Workshop | Apr 11, 2011 |
| Paying with Data: How Free Services Aren't Free (Panel) | South By Southwest, Austin TX | Mar 13, 2011 |
| Rethinking Privacy: A Multidisciplinary Perspective | CS247, Stanford | Mar 1, 2011 |
| Do Not Track Demystified (Panel) | Future of Privacy Forum, National Press Club, Washington D.C. | Dec 2, 2010 |
| A Thousand Points of Data (Panel) | Big Data: Public Policy and the Exploding Digital Corpus, Princeton University | Nov 30, 2010 |
| Location Services with Built-in Privacy | Stanford | Nov 10, 2010 |
| The Failure of Data Anonymization | SAP Labs | Sep 9, 2010 |
| Location services with built-in privacy | Security lunch, Stanford | Jul 15, 2010 |
| Anonymization: Myths, Challenges and Techniques (Panel) | International Association of Privacy Practitioners: Practical Privacy Series | Jun 15, 2010 |
| Social Networks and Persistent Identity: Security Threats and Opportunities | Symantec Research Labs | Jun 10 2010 |
| Location-based Services with Built-in Privacy | Stanford Computer Forum: 2010 Security Workshop | Apr 30 2010 |
| The Failure of Anonymization: Crisis and Opportunity | Yahoo Security Week | Apr 26 2010 |
| What Computer Scientists Know About Anonymization and Aren't Telling You | Privacy and Free Speech Online seminar, Stanford Law School | Apr 8 2010 |
| User Privacy on the Web | Stanford CS241 | Apr 1 2010 |
| Privacy Leaks in the Cloud and Potential Solutions (Panel) | RSA Conference | Mar 3 2010 |
| Adnostic: Privacy-preserving Targeted Advertising | NDSS 2010 | Mar 1 2010 |
| Privacy: The Big Picture (Part 1) | A series of 3 talks at CS 294: Advanced Topics in Computer Security (UC Berkeley) | Feb 27 2010 |
| Inferential Attacks on Data Privacy (Part 2) | ||
| Differential Privacy: Achievements and Challenges (Part 3) | ||
| Privacy and Technology (Panel) | Second FTC Privacy Roundtable, Berkeley | Jan 28 2010 |
| What Does it Mean to Own Our Genome? Large-scale Re-identification of DNA and Implications for Privacy | 23andme (Invited talk) | Jan 20 2010 |
| Stanford Security Seminar | Jan 12 2010 | |
| UTCS Colloquium, UT Austin | Nov 5 2009 | |
| Security lunch, UC Berkeley | Oct 27 2009 | |
| De-anonymizing Social Networks | RAIN Seminar (Stanford) | Sep 30 2009 |
| Privacy by Design in Social Networks: Pitfalls and Challenges | SocialNetSec (Stanford) | Sep 11 2009 |
| De-anonymizing Individuals in a Database | CS3636 (Naval Postgraduate School) | Jul 27 2009 |
| The End of Anonymized Data: The Case of Social Networks | IEEE S&P '09 | May 19, 2009 |
| Privacy and Anonymity in a World of Interconnected Data | Ph.D Thesis Defense, UT Austin | May 1, 2009 |
| Privacy and Anonymity in a World of Interconnected Data | Oct 2008 | |
| UC Berkeley | Oct 22, 2008 | |
| PARC | Oct 21, 2008 | |
| Microsoft Research | Oct 20, 2008 | |
| Stanford Security Seminar | Oct 14, 2008 | |
| Robust De-Anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets | IEEE S&P '08 | May 19, 2008 |
| Privacy and Anonymity in Social Networks | DIMACS Workshop on Internet Privacy | May 25, 2007 |
| Domain Extension for Random Oracles: Beyond the Birthday Paradox Bound | ECRYPT Hash Workshop 2007 | May 25, 2007 |
| Horizontal Malware Analysis | SRI International (Summer Internship wrap-up talk) | Aug 22 2007 |
| Obfuscated Databases and Group Privacy | ACM CCS 05 | Nov 8, 2005 |
| Fast Dictionary Attacks on Human-Memorable Passwords Using Time-Space Tradeoff | ACM CCS 05 | Nov 10, 2005 |