4 papers
"People can change, and patterns can be broken": Contextualizing Tradeoffs in Automated Decision-Making Systems
Rabeya Bosri, Anna Harbluk Lorimer, Afrida Hossain +2
Automated decision-making (ADM) systems are increasingly deployed in domains such as mortgage lending, prison sentencing, health insurance coverage, and hiring. Designing a respons…
Enhancing Privacy, Neglecting Harms: An Analysis of Real-World Digital Privacy Incidents
Shannon Veitch, C. Shem, Lena Csomor +7
Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) have emerged as a technical means for providing individuals with greater control over their information. Yet despite the growing deployment of…
Idiobionics: The Unification of Privacy and Intelligent Robotic Prostheses
Kwesi Afari Darfoor, Patrick M. Pilarski, Bailey Kacsmar
The human body is at the center of a growing family of technologies designed to tightly and persistently couple biological and digital systems. Robotic prostheses are a representat…
Adopt a PET! An Exploration of PETs, Policy, and Practicalities for Industry in Canada
Masoumeh Shafieinejad, Xi He, Bailey Kacsmar
Privacy is an instance of a social norm formed through legal, technical, and cultural dimensions. Institutions such as regulators, industry, and researchers act as societal agents…