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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Connecting the Dots Between Cookies and Identities
"Assuming an adversary, whether a criminal or intelligence agency, has a presence on the network, the working premise here is that the first- and third-par…
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Scientists explore safeguards for genomic data privacy
"(Narayanan, elsewhere, in talking about his doctoral research on problems with data anonymization, said his thesis, "in a sentence, is that the level…
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U. researchers develop Bitcoin prediction market
"Computer science professor Arvind Narayanan, one of the professors leading the project, said he believes Bitcoin provides an opportunity to decentralize p…
Privacy Substitutes
Privacy Substitutes by Jonathan Mayer & Arvind Narayanan Debates over information privacy are often framed as an inescapable conflict between competing int…
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The Trouble with ID Cookies: Why Do Not Track Must Mean Do Not Collect
Co-authored with Jonathan Mayer. The debate over the meaning of Do Not Track has raged for well over a year now. The primary forum is the W3C Tracking Protecti…
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World's Most Wired Computer Scientist
Arvind Narayanan’s business card is an exercise in brevity. It contains no data except his name and the words “Google me,” a fitting calling card for an academi…
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There is no such thing as anonymous online tracking
A 1993 New Yorker cartoon famously proclaimed, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." The Web is a very different place today; you now leav…
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Do Not Fool Will Make the Internet Explode
Joint post with Jonathan Mayer. Earlier today Mozilla announced support for Do Not Fool, a proposed mechanism for opting out of April Fools' pranks. We can…
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Do Not Track isn't just about Behavioral Advertising
A frequent misconception of Do Not Track is that the goal is to prevent tracking by online advertisers. In fact, tracking is a much broader problem on the web,…