Ben Gross, PhD

Identity Management - Security - User Experience

Month: September, 2009

The State of User Tracking and the Impossibility of Anonymizing Data

What we think is reasonable, commonplace, or even possible in terms of protecting or violating online privacy shifts constantly. Recent developments in tools and techniques for tracking online behavior and identifying individuals from supposedly anonymized data sets should cause us to reevaluate what is possible. Katherine McKinley of iSEC Partners published a detailed analysis of [...]

New Directions in Push Notifications for PC’s, Phones, and the Web

For the Internet connected population, the problems of access to information have long shifted from limited availability of information to problems of narrowing down the flood of relevant information to a manageable amount. Filters have become increasingly sophisticated, but timely, relevant, and unobtrusive display notifications for the information we want are still a work in [...]