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most citedAutomated Experiments on Ad Privacy Settings: A Tale of Opacity, Choice, and Discrimination

78 citations · 174 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.CR2023

Using Participants' Utility Functions to Compare Versions of Differential Privacy

Nitin Kohli, Michael Carl Tschantz

We use decision theory to compare variants of differential privacy from the perspective of prospective study participants. We posit the existence of a preference ordering on the se…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

What is Proxy Discrimination?

Michael Carl Tschantz

The near universal condemnation of proxy discrimination hides a disagreement over what it is. This work surveys various notions of proxy and proxy discrimination found in prior wor…

cs.CY2020★ 29 cited

Measuring Non-Expert Comprehension of Machine Learning Fairness Metrics

Debjani Saha, Candice Schumann, Duncan C. McElfresh +3

Bias in machine learning has manifested injustice in several areas, such as medicine, hiring, and criminal justice. In response, computer scientists have developed myriad definitio…

cs.GT2019

Bidding Strategies with Gender Nondiscrimination: Constraints for Online Ad Auctions

Milad Nasr, Michael Tschantz

Interactions between bids to show ads online can lead to an advertiser's ad being shown to more men than women even when the advertiser does not target towards men. We design biddi…

cs.SI2019

Assessing Post Deletion in Sina Weibo: Multi-modal Classification of Hot Topics

Meisam Navaki Arefi, Rajkumar Pandi, Michael Carl Tschantz +4

Widespread Chinese social media applications such as Weibo are widely known for monitoring and deleting posts to conform to Chinese government requirements. In this paper, we focus…

cs.CR2018★ 1 cited

The Effectiveness of Privacy Enhancing Technologies against Fingerprinting

Amit Datta, Jianan Lu, Michael Carl Tschantz

We measure how effective Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) are at protecting users from website fingerprinting. Our measurements use both experimental and observational methods…