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Measuring risks inherent to our digital economies using Amazon purchase histories from US consumers
Alex Berke, Kent Larson, Sandy Pentland +1
What do pickles and trampolines have in common? In this paper we show that while purchases for these products may seem innocuous, they risk revealing clues about customers' persona…
Evaluating Amazon Effects and the Limited Impact of COVID-19 With Purchases Crowdsourced from US Consumers
Alex Berke, Dana Calacci, Alex +2
We leverage a recently published dataset of Amazon purchase histories, crowdsourced from thousands of US consumers, to study how online purchasing behaviors have changed over time,…
Insights from an experiment crowdsourcing data from thousands of US Amazon users: The importance of transparency, money, and data use
Alex Berke, Robert Mahari, Sandy Pentland +2
Data generated by users on digital platforms are a crucial resource for advocates and researchers interested in uncovering digital inequities, auditing algorithms, and understandin…
zkTax: A pragmatic way to support zero-knowledge tax disclosures
Alex Berke, Tobin South, Robert Mahari +2
Tax returns contain key financial information of interest to third parties: public officials are asked to share financial data for transparency, companies seek to assess the financ…
Generating synthetic mobility data for a realistic population with RNNs to improve utility and privacy
Alex Berke, Ronan Doorley, Kent Larson +1
Location data collected from mobile devices represent mobility behaviors at individual and societal levels. These data have important applications ranging from transportation plann…
Assessing Disease Exposure Risk with Location Data: A Proposal for Cryptographic Preservation of Privacy
Alex Berke, Michiel Bakker, Praneeth Vepakomma +2
Governments and researchers around the world are implementing digital contact tracing solutions to stem the spread of infectious disease, namely COVID-19. Many of these solutions t…