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20202025
most citedHow good is good enough for COVID19 apps? The influence of benefits, accuracy, and privacy on willingness to adopt

58 citations · 127 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.HC2025

"Having Confidence in My Confidence Intervals": How Data Users Engage with Privacy-Protected Wikipedia Data

Harold Triedman, Jayshree Sarathy, Priyanka Nanayakkara +4

In response to calls for open data and growing privacy threats, organizations are increasingly adopting privacy-preserving techniques such as differential privacy (DP) that inject…

cs.CR2025

Enforcing Demographic Coherence: A Harms Aware Framework for Reasoning about Private Data Release

Mark Bun, Marco Carmosino, Palak Jain +2

The technical literature about data privacy largely consists of two complementary approaches: formal definitions of conditions sufficient for privacy preservation and attacks that…

cs.CR2024★ 2 cited

Models Matter: Setting Accurate Privacy Expectations for Local and Central Differential Privacy

Mary Anne Smart, Priyanka Nanayakkara, Rachel Cummings +2

Differential privacy is a popular privacy-enhancing technology that has been deployed both in industry and government agencies. Unfortunately, existing explanations of differential…

cs.CY2024★ 7 cited

Safer Digital Intimacy For Sex Workers And Beyond: A Technical Research Agenda

Vaughn Hamilton, Gabriel Kaptchuk, Allison McDonald +1

Many people engage in digital intimacy: sex workers, their clients, and people who create and share intimate content recreationally. With this intimacy comes significant security a…

cs.CR2023★ 8 cited

What Are the Chances? Explaining the Epsilon Parameter in Differential Privacy

Priyanka Nanayakkara, Mary Anne Smart, Rachel Cummings +2

Differential privacy (DP) is a mathematical privacy notion increasingly deployed across government and industry. With DP, privacy protections are probabilistic: they are bounded by…

cs.CY2021★ 52 cited

"I need a better description'': An Investigation Into User Expectations For Differential Privacy

Rachel Cummings, Gabriel Kaptchuk, Elissa M. Redmiles

Despite recent widespread deployment of differential privacy, relatively little is known about what users think of differential privacy. In this work, we seek to explore users' pri…

cs.CY2020★ 58 cited

How good is good enough for COVID19 apps? The influence of benefits, accuracy, and privacy on willingness to adopt

Gabriel Kaptchuk, Daniel G. Goldstein, Eszter Hargittai +2

A growing number of contact tracing apps are being developed to complement manual contact tracing. A key question is whether users will be willing to adopt these contact tracing ap…