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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Sites Spying on You in Weird New Ways, Princeton Study Exposes
""Several features of the web...are being used or abused, depending on how one looks at it, by these tracking companies and various entities in the ad…
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Apple’s New Privacy Technology May Pressure Competitors to Better Protect Our Data
"Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor at Princeton University, is hopeful that Apple’s privacy stand will pressure other companies to follow suit. The…
Apple wants to know users better without knowing them
"While Google has used differential privacy to analyze user data from its Chrome browser, Apple is the first major tech company to adopt it more widely and…
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Apple Tries to Peek at User Habits Without Violating Privacy
"One reason that differential privacy hasn’t been adopted more widely is that it is difficult to get right. “It’s not quite something you can deploy in a p…
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Study of 1 million sites shows just how closely we’re watched
"Studying a million websites is hard. To do it, Arvind Narayanan – who heads the Web Transparency and Accountability Project at Princeton University – buil…
Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis
Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis is the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking to date. We measure stateful (cookie-…
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Huge new study shows that Google is watching you everywhere you go
"All of this might sound terrifying, but as assistant professor Arvind Narayanan and graduate student Steven Englehardt explain, the preeminence of Google,…
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Your call and text records are far more revealing than you think
""The study has important implications for surveillance law and policy," says Arvind Narayanan, a computer scientist and data privacy expert at P…
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Why the names of six people who complained of sexual assault were published online by Dallas police
"Balancing the desire for greater transparency and the need to protect the privacy of victims can be a difficult issue for the authorities. And some police…
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MIT Bitcoin Expo Day One Focuses on Technology
"After lunch, Princeton University's Arvind Narayanan took the stage, drawing parallels between the histories of gold mining and telephone line install…
The Blockchain Gang
itcoin is passé. But if the buzz is to be believed, the “block chain” technology behind bitcoin is going to revolutionize your toaster, thebanking system, and e…
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Safari Is Now The Only Major Browser That Offers ‘Do Not Track’ on iOS
"“From a technical point of view, this is Apple's ‘fault,’” Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton who has worked on…