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1/ New preprint led by Zeyuan Li 🚨 The OpenAI-HuggingFace incident showed the importance for understanding and monitoring agent-agent communication. With @andonlabs (from vending bench and autonomous companies) we study agent communication in long-horizon competitive settings
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The workshop featured papers by @ssnstudy, @HeinzCollege; @avi_collis, @HeinzCollege; @ganglmair, @ZEW; @samgarvingold, @Stanford; @econominable, @uclaanderson; Aileen Nielsen, @Harvard_Law; @andsimonov, @Columbia_Biz; and was moderated by James C. Cooper, @georgemasonlaw.
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Wed. Oct 23rd 4:30pm ET: "Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare" - Alessandro Acquisti @ssnstudy - Carnegie Mellon ceri.as/alessandro
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Look what arrived! New edited volume on the economics of privacy. Aimed at scholars looking to get up to speed on the literature and the open questions. With chapters by @ce_tucker @ssnstudy @garjoh_canuck Amalia Miller and Alessandro Bonatti.
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“It might sound like paranoia to some, but some people really don’t like the idea that they don’t have control over how their data is used.” @ssnstudy was recently quoted in an article for @WSJ regarding privacy-focused browsers.🌐 on.wsj.com/3yQgsge
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“Advertising intermediaries can strategically use the amount of information they collect about consumers in order to benefit mostly themselves…” - Alessandro Acquisti @ssnstudy, Trustees Professor Of Information Technology And Public Policy on.natgeo.com/4b03daS
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We want to extend a congratulations to @ssnstudy on being named an inaugural @ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar!🍎 🌟 His outstanding contributions have placed him in the top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide!🌍 bit.ly/4bo1j3K
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Alessandro Acquisti su #IntelligenzaArtificiale , #BigData , #privacy , #Democrazia inaugura l'aa 23-24. Incontro in in presenza e in streaming su istao.it/
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Who is benefitting from the data economy? Join @ssnstudy in South Hall this Thursday, Sept. 21, to learn more about where economic value from consumer data is directed. 🗓️ 🕙 10:10 am to 11:30 am 📍 205 South Hall ischool.berkeley.edu/events/…
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Webinar: @ssnstudy @CarnegieMellon "Policy Impact of Statistical Uncertainty and Privacy" Funding formula reform may help address unequal impacts of uncertainty from data error & privacy protections. TUE 8/29 9am EST Zoom: luohanacademy.zoom.us/j/8469… GCal: calendar.google.com/calendar…
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With me as moderator, privacy/tech researcher @ssnstudy, composer @kamalasankaram & @Disney developer Joe Holt, we’ll discuss how art, tech & research can merge to educate the public on the risks & dangers to our privacy posed by current practices in surveillance capitalism
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Vote for our panel at @sxsw 2024! "Fusing Opera Theatre W/ Research For Social Justice" is based on the @SloanPublic @OperaonTapNYC techno-noir opera "Looking At You," during which audience members are datamined & exposed to their own content
 Vote now: panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/14…
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Published in @CACMmag, Alessandro Acquisti (@ssnstudy) and Ryan Steed’s (@ryanbsteed) column advocates for an interdisciplinary, empirically grounded research agenda on privacy-preserving analytics (PPAs) that connects social and computer scientists. @HeinzCollege

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Why should you be hesitant to purchase a product advertised to you online? “[Recent] studies consistently highlighted a pervasive problem of low-quality vendors in targeted ads,” wrote @ssnstudy, Eduardo Abraham Schnadower Mustri, & @IdrisAdjerid. nytimes.com/2023/04/06/opini… @nytimes
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🔥Today is #WorldPasswordDay, and these are some of the most popular TED Talks on privacy & security, featuring: @lorrietweet @schneierblog @k3r3n3 @evacide @cbracy @MishaGlenny @NadyaBartol @ggreenwald @NitaFarahany @ssnstudy @minipetite @finnmyrstad @kashhill @suryamattu
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Excited for our upcoming Workshop on AI & Analytics for Social Good - May 5 at UMD, featuring @uttara_a @ssnstudy @haldaume3 @mvilborg2 @Ananya_Sen_ and many more!
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(2/3) The work around @jessica_colnago, @lorrietweet & @ssnstudy found that people who say they don't care about privacy were still found to engage in privacy management and protection activities 👉 doi.org/10.56553/popets-2023…
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They found that the targeted ads displayed products that were 10 percent more expensive and more than twice as likely to be sold by lower-quality vendors as measured by their Better Business Bureau ratings. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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