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Project: The Science of Privacy: Implications for Data Usage
Grant: National Security Agency, awarded August 2018 (sub-award from the International Computer Science Institute)
People: Helen Nissenbaum (Co-Principal Investigator), Serge Egelman (Principal Investigator) & Michael Tschantz (Co-Principal Investigator)



Project: Contextual Integrity: From Theory To Practice
Grant: NSF, CNS Division Of Computer and Network Systems, awarded August 2018
People: Helen Nissenbaum (Co-Principal Investigator), Serge Egelman (Principal Investigator), Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol (Principal Investigator)


Project: Artificial Intelligence, Policy, and Practice
Grant: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, awarded January 2018
People: Helen Nissenbaum (Co-Principal Investigator), Solon Barocas, Jon Kleinberg, Karen Levy



Project: Accountable Information Use: Privacy and Fairness in Decision-Making Systems
Grant: NSF, CNS Division Of Computer and Network Systems, awarded May 2017
People: Helen Nissenbaum (Co-Principal Investigator), Michael Tschantz (Co-Principal Investigator)


Project: Origin Privacy: Protecting Privacy in the Big-Data Era
Grant: DARPA Brandeis Project, awarded September 2016
People: Helen Nissenbaum (Co-Principal Investigator), Anupam Datta (Co-Principal Investigator), Michael Tschantz (Co-Principal Investigator), Sebastian Benthall


Project: INSPIRE: Value-Function Handoffs in Human-Machine Compositions (download overview)
Grant: NSF, awarded September 2016
People: Helen Nissenbaum (Co-Principal Investigator), Deirdre Mulligan (Principal Investigator)


Project: TrackMeNot - Privacy Through Obfuscation, A Firefox extension to protect web-search privacy
Grant: Collaborative Research: PORTIA - Sensitive Information in a Wired World, NSF, Information Technology Research Program
People: Helen Nissenbaum (Principal Investigator), Daniel Howe (Research Assistant), John Fanning (Research Assistant), Vincent Toubiana (Project Collaborator)


Project: AdNauseam - A Firefox extension designed to enable ad targeting without third-party online tracking
People: Helen Nissenbaum (Co-Principal Investigator), Daniel Howe (Co-Principal Investigator and Lead Developer), Mushon Zer-Aviv (Lead Designer)


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Project: Data/Metadata Distinction in US Privacy Law and Policy
Grant: Digital Trust Foundation, awarded March 2015
People: Helen Nissenbaum (Co-Principal Investigator), Katherine Strandburg (Co-Principal Investigator), Paula Kift, Kiel Brennan-Marquez

Project: Values in Design Council
Grant: NSF EAGER: Values in Design in the Future Internet Architecture
NYU Researchers: Helen Nissenbaum (Principal Investigator), Jacob Gaboury (RA), Department of Media, Culture & Communication
VID Council: Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School), Geoffrey Bowker (Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences), Finn Brunton, (University of Michigan School of Information), Paul Dourish (Department of Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine), Batya Friedman (The Information School, University of Washington), Alexander Galloway (Department of Media, Culture & Communication, NYU), Tarleton Gillespie (Department of Communication, Cornell University), James Grimmelmann (New York Law School), Chris Hoofnagle (Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley), Deborah Johnson (Department of Science, Technology & Society, University of Virginia), Deirdre Mulligan, (School of Information, UC Berkeley), Paul Ohm (University of Colorado Law School, University of Colorado at Boulder), Phoebe Sengers (Department of Information Science and S&TS, Cornell University), Michael Zimmer (School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Project: INSPIRE: Information Security and Privacy - An Interdisciplinary Research and Education Program
Grant: IGERT: Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, NSF awarded July 2010
People: Helen Nissenbaum (Co-Principal Investigator), Anindya Ghose, William Hery, Nasir Memon, Rae Zimmerman, Finn Brunton (Coordinator), Ramesh Karri (Polytechnic University)

Project: SHARPS: Strategic Healthcare IT Advanced Research Projects on Security
Grant: SHARPS is a multi-institutional and multidisciplinary research project aimed at reducing security and privacy barriers to the meaningful use of health information technology. Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator
NYU Researchers: Helen Nissenbaum
Research Partners: Carl A. Gunter (Director) and Dan Roth (UI Urbana-Champaign), Anupam Datta (Carnegie Mellon), David Kotz and Denise Anthony (Dartmouth), Dan Kramer (Harvard), Avi Rubin, Christoph Lehmann, and Darren Lacey (Johns Hopkins), David Liebovitz (Northwestern), John C. Mitchell (Stanford, Chief IT Scientist), Ruzena Bajcsy and S. Shankar Sastry (UC Berkeley), Kevin Fu (UMass Amherst), Tadayoshi (Yoshi) Kohno (University of Washington), Mark Frisse, Edward K. Shultz, William W. Stead, and Janos Sztipanovits (Chief Medical Scientist) (Vanderbilt)

Project: Adnostic: Targeting Without Tracking (download pdf)
Grant: Portia, Project Presidio
NYU Researchers: Helen Nissenbaum (Project Director), Solon Barocas (Research Assistant), and Vincent Toubiana (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
Research Partners: Arvind Narayanan (Stanford University), Dan Boneh (Stanford University)

Project: Project Presidio - Collaborative Policies and Assured Information Sharing
Grant: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)
NYU Researchers: Helen Nissenbaum (Principal Investigator)
Research Partners: Dan Boneh (Stanford University), Anupam Datta (CMU), Joe Hellerstein (UC Berkeley), John C. Mitchell (Stanford University), Tim Roughgarden (Stanford University), Andre Scedrov (University of Pennsylvania), Hovav Shacham (UCSD), Vitaly Shmatikov (UT Austin), Dawn Song (Berkeley), Brent Waters (SRI / UT Austin)

Project: Online Court Records, Privacy, and Contextual Integrity
Grant: NSF, Cyber-Trust (CT) Collaborative Research, CNS-0831124 July 2008
NYU Researchers: Helen Nissenbaum (Project Director), Amanda Conley (Research Assistant)
Research Partners: Anupam Datta (CMU), Divya Sharma (CMU)

Project: Privacy, Compliance and Information Risk in Complex Organizational Processes
Grant: NSF, Cyber-Trust (CT) Collaborative Research, CNS-0831124 July 2008
NYU Researchers: Helen Nissenbaum (Principal Investigator), Amanda Conley (Research Assistant)
Research Partners: Anupam Datta (CMU), John C. Mitchell (Stanford University), Andre Scedrov (University of Pennsylvania)

Project: Facial Recognition Technology: A Survey of Policy and Implementation Issues (download pdf)
Grant: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, NYU Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response
NYU Researchers: Helen Nissenbaum (Project Director), Solon Barocas (Research Assistant), Travis Hall (Research Assistant), and John Fanning (Research Assistant)
Research Partners: Lucas Introna (Lancaster University)

Project: Collaborative Research: Values-at-Play - Integrating Social Factors into Design
Grant: NSF, Science of Design, CNS 0613893 September 2006
NYU Researchers: Helen Nissenbaum (Principal Investigator), Ricki Goldman (Research Associate), JoEllen Fisherkeller (Research Associate), Dorothy Bennett (Research Associate), Alice Marwick (Research Assistant), Jonathan Belman (Research Assistant)
Research Partners: Mary Flanagan (Dartmouth)
Advisory Board: Katie Salen (Parsons), Frank Lantz (area/code), Celia Pearce (Georgia Tech), Tracy Fullerton (USC), Philip Brey (University of Twente)

Project: Collaborative Research: PORTIA - Sensitive Information in a Wired World
Grant: NSF, Information Technology Research Program
NYU Researchers: Helen Nissenbaum (Principal Investigator), Solon Barocas (Research Assistant)
Research Partners: Dan Boneh (Stanford University), Joan Feigenbaum (Yale University), Stephanie Forrest (University of New Mexico), Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University), Ravi Kannan (Yale University), John Mitchell (Stanford University), Rajeev Motwani (Stanford University), Avi Silberschatz (Yale University), Rebecca Wright (Rutgers University), Jack Balkin (Yale Law School), Cynthia Dwork (Microsoft Research), Sam Hawala (US Census Bureau), Brian LaMacchia (Microsoft Corporation), Kevin McCurley (Google), Perry Miller (Yale Center for Medical Informatics), John Morris (Center for Democracy and Technology), Tom Pageler (Secret Service, San Francisco Electronic Crimes Unit), Marc Rotenberg (Electronic Privacy Information Center), Tomas Sander (HP Trust, Security, and Privacy Group), Alejandro Schaffer (DHHS/National Institutes of Health), Dan Schutzer (Citigroup)





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