Arvind Narayanan is an Assistant Professor at Princeton's Department of Computer Science and Center for Information Technology Policy and an Affiliate Scholar at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society. He studies information privacy and security, and has a side-interest in tech policy. His research has shown that data anonymization is broken in fundamental ways, for which he jointly received the 2008 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award. He is one of the researchers behind the "Do Not Track" proposal. You can follow Arvind on Twitter at @random_walker and on Google+ here.
Arvind Narayanan
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Smart TVs are data-collecting machines, new study shows
"“If you use a device such as Roku and Amazon Fire TV, there are numerous companies that can build up a fairly comprehensive picture of what you’re watchin…
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How to Keep Your Mobile Banking Safe
"But even authentication codes sent via text message aren’t entirely secure, as hackers can gain control of your phone through a so-called SIM swap—in whic…
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3 Easy Ways to Evaluate AI Claims
"“AI has no well-defined meaning and many so-called AI companies are simply trying to take advantage of the buzz around that term,” says Arvind Narayanan,…
Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection
Blocking cookies is bad for privacy. That’s the new disingenuous argument from Google, trying to justify why Chrome is so far behind Safari and Firefox in offer…
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How the tragic death of Do Not Track ruined the web for everyone
"Arvind Narayanan, now an associate professor at Princeton and part of that early DNT-formulating group, said via an email statement that the prospect of f…
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Researchers link realism to blockchain’s promise
"“I think this will be a story of gradual integration, rather than a story of a revolution,” said Arvind Narayanan, an associate professor of computer scie…
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Facebook emails show us again that profits come before privacy
"Facebook is just a very high-profile example of that problem. Its claim that it doesn't sell user is based on a narrow interpretation of the word sell…
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Energy and Natural Resources Committee holds hearing on blockchain technology
"In his testimony, Arvind Narayanan, associate professor of computer science at Princeton University, discussed the cybersecurity implications of blockchai…
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Blockchain Could Help Bring Renewable Energy to the Power Grid, Experts Tell Congress
"“Blockchain technology is not a necessary or core component of cybersecurity,” said Arvind Narayanan, a computer science associate professor at Princeton…
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'Data is a fingerprint': why you aren't as anonymous as you think online
"“Once our data gets out there, it tends to be stored forever,” said Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton computer science professor. “There are firms that specia…
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Making Smart Machines Fair
"A first step for the professors is to measure the cultural bias in the standard data sets that many researchers rely on to train their systems. From there…
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Startups Want to Use the Blockchain to Take Our Data Out of Uber's Hands
"“The idea that mainstream consumers will directly interact with blockchain technology—or any piece of code—without intermediaries is completely silly,” wr…