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Submitted a position paper on preferences for AI training, to consider the interests of privacy and research, not just copyright, and to note the opportunity for standardization to help, September 2024.

It's time to standardize the Global Privacy Control: proposed a charter for a new Privacy Working Group, and commented to Colorado on GPC as a universal opt-out mechanism, December 2023.

Commented to the TSA on opaque and premature proposals to adopt mobile driver's licenses, with the ACLU, EFF and EPIC, October 2023.

Published a report on the policy implications of novel network slicing technology: Slicing the Network: Maintaining Neutrality, Protecting Privacy, and Promoting Competition, with Mallory Knodel, April 2023.

Responded to the call for input from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on human rights and technical standard-setting, with W3C and CDT colleagues, March 2023.

Wrote about changing governance at W3C and was nominated (but not elected) to the W3C Advisory Board, Winter 2022.

Filed comments to the FTC regarding commercial surveillance practices, including harmful advertising and more meaningful transparency and consumer control, with CDT colleagues, November 2022.

Published a first public working draft of Privacy Principles for the Web, with the W3C TAG, May 2022.

Used BigBang to measure and analyze organizational affiliations of IETF standard-setting participants.

Supported the Transit Equity Campaign to advocate for riders, workers and communities of color in transit planning.

Developed a Green New Deal for Durham, Spring 2020. Durham can lead the way in responding to the climate crisis with local, equitable solutions.

Participated in the Future Paths to a Public Interest Internet Infrastructure workshop at Harvard Kennedy School, September 2019.

Blogged "Adding another permission? Questions and suggestions" on the W3C blog, July 2019.

Published Mitigating Browser Fingerprinting in Web Specifications, a W3C Interest Group Note, with PING, March 2019.

Released v0.2.0 of BigBang, a toolkit for studying communications data from collaborative projects, July 2018.

Presented to workshop on Multistakeholder participation in global Internet standard-setting at University of Warwick - Brussels, May 2018.

Presented to Protocol Governance and Power seminar at the Alan Turing Institute, March 2018.

Hosted I School Crypto Party 2017, January 2017.

Signatory to neveragain.tech, December 2016.

Privacy Is an Essentially Contested Concept: A Multi-Dimensional Analytic for Mapping Privacy. published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, with Deirde K. Mulligan and Colin Koopman, November 2016.

Taught Technology & Delegation Lab, with Deirde K. Mulligan, Fall 2016.

Presented to the Human Rights Protocol Considerations Research Group, IETF 95, April 2016.

Design Wars: The FBI, Apple and hundreds of millions of phones on the Citizen Technologist blog, with Deirde K. Mulligan, March 2016.

An array of tools to ensure security and privacy of the Open Web Platform on the W3C Blog, December 2015.

Published Fingerprinting Guidance for Web Specification Authors (Draft), November 2015.

Hosted the Center for Technology, Society & Policy Proposal Hackathon and Anti-Harassment Reading Group, Fall 2015.

Announced the Center for Technology, Society & Policy at UC Berkeley, July 2015.

Published Last Call of Tracking Compliance and Scope (DNT). Comments welcome! July 2015.

Hosted Privacy Lab, a meet-up for Bay Area privacy folks, May 2015.

Reviewing for Privacy in Internet and Web Standard-Setting, presented [pdf] at the 2015 International Workshop on Privacy Engineering, May 2015.

Taught Technology & Delegation, an I School seminar, with Deirde K. Mulligan, Spring 2015.

Privacy by Design Workshop: Concepts and Connections on the Computing Community Consortium blog, with Richmond Wong, February 2015.

Crypto Party 2014, our second annual Crypto Party at the I School, November 2014.

Protocol for Open Opt-in Online/Offline Friendship, an Internet-Draft for "Add me as a friend" buttons, with Andrew Badr, October 2014.

Glass-to-Flickr, a Transparent Eyeball production, to post photos taken through Glass to Flickr, June 2014.

"On Exactitude in Science", a Web adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges, a "Notable Map" in the Mapping and its Discontents Symposium, November 2013.

Signatory to Technologists' Comment to the Director of National Intelligence Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology, October 2013.

Internet Multistakeholder Processes and Techno-Policy Standards [pdf], with Deirde K. Mulligan, in Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law, Spring 2013.

Privacy Design Patterns and Anti-Patterns [pdf], presented [pdf] to the Trustbusters Workshop at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. July 2013.

W3C Workshop: Do Not Track and Beyond, co-chaired with Jan Schallaböck. November 2012.

Conference on Web Privacy Measurement, co-chaired with Chris Hoofnagle and Jonathan Mayer. June 2012.

Do Not Track: The Future of Web Privacy, talk at the Web 2.0 Security and Privacy Workshop. May 2012.

Privacy and Policy in Social Media, tutorial at the Legal Frontiers in Digital Media conference. May 2012.

PrivacyPatterns.org with Mohit Gupta, patterns for practical privacy-by-design, announced at SXSWi. March 2012.

On the W3C blog, Progress and support for Do Not Track in Brussels, an update on the Tracking Protection Working Group. February 2012.

Report on the W3C Workshop on Web Tracking and User Privacy and follow-up blog posts re: Do Not Track on the W3C blog, Freedom-to-Tinker and Technology | Academics | Policy. Spring 2011.

Technology and Policy Lab, a graduate course co-taught with Deirde K. Mulligan. Spring 2011. (See the course wiki.)

Geolocation privacy and application platforms, with Erik Wilde, in Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS, November 2010.

Simple Policy Negotiation for Location Disclosure [pdf], with Erik Wilde, W3C Workshop on Privacy and Data Usage Control, October 2010. (See presented slides [pdf].)

Information Organization Lab, a graduate course co-taught with Ryan Greenberg. Fall 2010. (See the 2009 version too.)

MeLo: The Meaningful Location Project, with Ryan Greenberg, Mohit Gupta, Karen Nomorosa and Steph Pakrul. May 2010.

Privacy Issues of the W3C Geolocation API, with Deirde K. Mulligan and Erik Wilde, February 2010.

Personalized ontologies of location [pdf], presentation to the Friday Afternoon Seminar, November 2009.

A meaningful ontology of location: From (37.852, -122.252) to home and back again [pdf], presentation to the Friday Afternoon Seminar, October 2009.

Who's using the W3C Geolocation API? September 2009.

How do websites know where I am? August 2009.

The case for a location metasystem [pdf], in the ACM Digital Library, Second International Workshop on Location and the Web, April 2009.

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