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
Press
•
Entrepreneurs Explore Bitcoin's Future
"It is difficult for society to work out a legal framework to differentiate between good and bad uses of this technology, says Arvind Narayanan, a computer…
“Private blockchain” is just a confusing name for a shared database
Banks and financial institutions seem to be all over the blockchain. It seems they agree with the Bitcoin community that the technology behind Bitcoin can provi…
Prof. Arvind Narayanan - Hearsay Culture Show #238 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
Why Bitcoin Matters (To Computer Scientists)
View the full video on YouTube. Talk by Arvind Narayanan at the University of Maryland. Based on a paper-in-progress by Arvind Narayanan and Joseph Bonneau A…
Press
•
Data Security Is Becoming the Sparkle in Bitcoin
"“There are very good reasons why we have legal and social institutions and economic intermediaries,” said Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of comp…
Press
•
U. faculty codevelop free online course on Bitcoin
"“A couple of us and our graduate students in the computer science department have been doing and publishing research on bitcoins, and it’s been a fascinat…
Press
•
Tracking the trackers: Investigators reveal pervasive profiling of web users
""What's unfortunate is the huge gap of information - understanding what's happening on the Web and what users know about tracking," said…
Press
•
Tracking the trackers: Investigators reveal pervasive profiling of Web users
""What's unfortunate is the huge gap of information — understanding what's happening on the Web and what users know about tracking," said…
Press
•
Bitcoin Miners Debate Risks and Rewards at Las Vegas Convention
"Narayanan argued that game theorists who work in the bitcoin space need to do a better job of interfacing with other parts of the ecosystem in order to ob…
Press
•
'Do not track'? Oh what the heck, go ahead
""The original idea was to replace a variety of opt-out mechanisms with a browser preference," said Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professo…
Press
•
Researcher proposes alert tool for managing online privacy risks
"What we need is a way of getting all the relevant privacy information in a timely, applicable and focused fashion. Arvind Narayanan, Assistant Professor o…
Eternal vigilance is a solvable technology problem: A proposal for streamlined privacy alerts
Consider three recent news articles about online privacy: Google+ added a new feature that shows view counts on everything you post, including your photos. It’…