SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2017
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 220, NYU Law School
2:00 - 3:45pm
Threat Models and Adversaries: Why Obfuscation?
- “PrivacyVisor: Privacy Protection for Preventing Face Detection from Camera”
Isao Echizen, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo - “Evaluating Strategies for Padding DNS Traffic”
Daniel Kahn Gillmor, American Civil Liberties Union and Internet Engineering Task Force - “Circumvention Through Obfuscation”
Amir Houmansadr, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Moderator: Seda Gürses, University of Leuven
3:45 - 4:00pm
Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:30pm
Does it Work?: Tests, Evaluation, and Benchmarks
- “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 - “Obfuscation and Free-Riding in the Long-Run: Using Game Theory to Assess the Impact of User-Initiated Perturbation Techniques”
Jeffrey Pawlick and Quanyan Zhu, New York University - Moderator: Helen Nissenbaum, Cornell Tech and New York University
SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 2017
Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, NYU Law School
9:00 - 10:30am
Obfuscating Identities and Locations
- “Identity Obfuscation Through Fully Functional Avatars”
Paul Ashley, Anonyome Labs - “Profile Obfuscation as a Privacy Design Pattern”
Ero Balsa, University of Leuven - “Go Rando First and Ask Questions Later: Resisting Emotional Surveillance with Noisy Feelings”
Benjamin Grosser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Moderator: Scott Skinner-Thompson, New York University
10:30 - 10:40am
Coffee Break
10:40am - 12:10pm
Obfuscating Software
- “Software diversification as an obfuscation technique”
Benoit Baudry and Nicolas Harrand, Inria - “Hiding Data Flows with Covert Channels”
Saumya Debray and Jon Stephens, University of Arizona - “How Good is Obfuscation?”
Alexander Pretschner, Technical University of Munich - Moderator: Solon Barocas, Microsoft Research
12:10 - 12:45pm
Lunch Break
Please purchase lunch and bring it back for the lunch panel.
12:45 - 2:10pm (lunch panel)
The Art of Obfuscation
- “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 - “Obfuscation as Option: The Case of Missing Data”
Mimi Onuoha - Moderators: Taylor Black and Harris Kornstein, New York University
2:10 - 2:20pm
Break
2:20 - 3:50pm
Obfuscating Things: Hardware, Devices, and Infrastructure
- “Obfuscating Integrated Circuits (ICs): What, Why and How?”
Siddharth Garg, New York University - “Obfuscation in Adaptive Systems”
Seda Gürses, University of Leuven - “Two Stories on (De)Obfuscation: From Handbags to Search”
Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University - Moderator: Natasha Dow Schüll, New York University
3:50 - 4:00pm
Snack Break
4:00 - 5:30pm
Obfuscation: New Applications and Communities
- “Obfuscation in Bitcoin: Techniques and Politics”
Arvind Narayanan and Malte Möser, Princeton University - “Obfuscation Going Forward: A Research Agenda”
Finn Brunton, New York University; Helen Nissenbaum, Cornell Tech and New York University; and Daniel Howe, School of Creative Media - Moderator: Finn Brunton, New York University
5:30 - 6:00pm
Wrap-up
updated April 6, 2017
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International Program and Organizing Committee:
Paul Ashley, Anonyome Labs
Benoît Baudry, INRIA, France
Finn Brunton, New York University
Saumya Debray, University of Arizona
Cynthia Dwork, Harvard University
Rachel Greenstadt, Drexel University
Seda Gürses, Princeton University
Anna Lysyanskaya, Brown University
Helen Nissenbaum, Cornell Tech & New York University
Alexander Pretschner, Technische Universität München
Reza Shokri, Cornell Tech