Workshop on Obfuscation

WORKSHOP REPORT

We're pleased to release the Workshop Report from the International Workshop on Obfuscation, now available to view as individual articles below as well as in a printer-friendly PDF.  Whether you were able to attend or couldn't make it, we hope this report will provide further resources towards developing obfuscation both as a theory and praxis.

We have asked our panelists to each provide a brief essay summarizing their project, concept, application—with an emphasis on the questions, challenges, and discussions raised during the weekend. As with the workshop itself, this report is a starting point rather than an end point.

• Introduction — Obfuscation Going Forward: A Research Agenda

  Finn Brunton, New York University; Helen Nissenbaum, Cornell Tech and New York University

• PrivacyVisor: Privacy Protection for Preventing Face Detection from Camera Images

  Isao Echizen, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo

• Circumvention Through Obfuscation

  Amir Houmansadr, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Political Rhetoric as Obfuscation and Finding Solutions with Neural Networks

  Nicole Cote and Rob Hammond, New York University

• Obfuscating Data to Prevent Discrimination

  Sorelle Friedler, Haverford College

• Using Ethically-Constrained Game Theory to Protect Our Privacy

  Jeffrey Pawlick and Quanyan Zhu, New York University Tandon School of Engineering

• Identity Obfuscation Through Fully Functional Avatars

  Paul Ashley, Anonyome Labs

• Go Rando: Resisting Emotional Surveillance with Noisy Feelings

  Ben Grosser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Hiding Data Flows with Covert Channels

  Saumya Debray and Jon Stephens, University of Arizona

• Software Diversification as an Obfuscation TechniqueSoftware Diversification as an Obfuscation Technique

  Nicolas Harrand and Benoit Baudry, Inria

• Software (De-)Obfuscation: How Good Is It?

  Alexander Pretschner, Technische Universität München, Germany

• On Missing Datasets

  Mimi Onuoha

• Obfuscating 15M US Criminal Records and Mugshots for the Right to Remove Them

  Paolo Cirio

• HyperFace: Emerging Strategies for Obfuscating Computer Vision Algorithms

  Adam Harvey

• Place vs. Space: On the Future of Location Obfuscation
  

  Seda Gürses, University of Leuven

• Obfuscation in Bitcoin: Techniques and Politics

  Arvind Narayanan & Malte Möser, Princeton University

• Obfuscation and the Threat of Centralized Distribution

  Daniel C. Howe, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong