Helen Nissenbaum

Helen Nissenbaum is professor of Media, Culture and Communication and Computer Science at New York University,[1] and a Director of the Information Law Institute. She is best known for her work on privacy, privacy law, trust, and security in the online world. Her context-based approach to privacy has been influential in United States government thinking about privacy issues.[2][3]

She is a contributor to the TrackMeNot privacy-through-obfuscation extension for Firefox and Chrome.[4]

Bibliography

Nissenbaum has written or edited a number of books:

External links

References

  1. Faculty page at New York University
  2. "CV Helen Nissenbaum". New York University. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
  3. Alex Madrigal, "The Philosopher Whose Fingerprints Are All Over the FTC's New Approach to Privacy", The Atlantic, Mar 29 2012
  4. Howe, Daniel C. (2016). "Surveillance Countermeasures: Expressive Privacy via Obfuscation". aprja.net. APRJA. Retrieved 14 November 2016. Some critics questioned TrackMeNot's effectiveness against machine-learning attacks, some cast it as a misuse of bandwidth, and others found it unethical.
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