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
Recent articles
The future of ad blocking
There’s an ongoing arms race between ad blockers and websites — more and more sites either try to sneak their ads through or force users to disable ad blockers.…
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Artificial Intelligence based systems can gain human biases
"These biases range from the morally neutral to the objectionable views – preference for birds over animals to views on race and gender. “We have a situati…
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AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals
"“A major reason we chose to study word embeddings is that they have been spectacularly successful in the last few years in helping computers make sense of…
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Biased bots: Human prejudices sneak into artificial intelligence systems
""Questions about fairness and bias in machine learning are tremendously important for our society," said researcher Arvind Narayanan, an assista…
Why You Shouldn’t Be Comforted by Internet Providers’ Promises to Protect Your Privacy
This week President Trump signed a congressional resolution to repeal protections—scheduled to go into effect in December 2017—that would have prevented interne…
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Beware – your anonymous web history can be linked to you via Facebook, Twitter and Reddit
""Users may assume they are anonymous when they are browsing a news or a health website, but our work adds to the list of ways in which tracking compa…
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Your 'anonmyized' web browsing history may not be anonymous
""It is already known that some companies, such as Google and Facebook, track users online and know their identities," said Arvind Narayanan, an…
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How to Fix Silicon Valley’s Sexist Algorithms
"But not everyone believes gender bias should be eliminated from the data sets. Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton,…
Online Trackers Follow Our Digital Shadow By 'Fingerprinting' Browsers, Devices
"Princeton's Arvind Narayanan and Steven Englehardt studied how all the things we do not see as users are valuable to someone on our digital trail, as…
Internet Tracking Has Moved Beyond Cookies
"A new survey from a group of Princeton researchers of one million websitessheds some light on the cutting-edge tricks being used to follow your digital tr…
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Facebook Has Difficult Road to Make Ads Unblockable
"“Facebook engineers could try harder to obfuscate the differences. For example, they could use non-human-readable element IDs to make it harder to figure…
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Facebook Can’t Win Against Ad Blockers, and Here’s the Proof
"Narayanan concludes in his post that Facebook’s anti-ad-blocking campaign is doomed, at least if it continues in the current vein of acting as if the soci…