Event Description
The FTC will host its eighth annual PrivacyCon on March 6, 2024. PrivacyCon 2024 will bring together a diverse group of stakeholders, including researchers, academics, industry representatives, consumer advocates, and government regulators, to discuss the latest research and trends related to consumer privacy and data security. The call for presentations seeks empirical research and demonstrations research related to:
- Automated Systems/artificial intelligence;
- Health-Related surveillance;
- Children’s and teens’ privacy;
- Deepfakes and voice clones;
- Worker surveillance; and
- Advertising Ecosystem and Surveillance Advertising.
Information on how to submit a presentation can be found in the call for presentations. The deadline for submissions was December 6, 2023.
This event will be virtual, open to the public, and will be webcast on the FTC’s website at www.ftc.gov.
Please share the announcement and call for papers to anyone who might be interested or doing empirical work in this space.
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Agenda
Wednesday, March 6
9:00 a.m. Welcome
Jamie Hine
Senior Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection
9:05 a.m. Opening Remarks
Lina Khan
Chair, Federal Trade Commission
9:15 a.m. Panel 1: Economics
Timo Müller-Tribbensee, Goethe University Frankfurt
Paper: Paying for Privacy: Pay-or-Tracking Walls (PDF)
SSRN: Abstract and PaperSebastian Benthall, New York University School of Law: Regulatory CI: Adaptively Regulating Privacy as Contextual Integrity
Bernd Skiera, Goethe University Frankfurt
Paper: Economic Impact of Opt-in versus Opt-out Requirements for Personal Data Usage: The Case of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) (PDF)
SSRN: Abstract and PaperModerators: Eric Spurlino, Economist, Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics; and Tia Hutchinson, Technologist, Federal Trade Commission, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection
10:10 a.m. Panel 2: Consumer Attitudes/Behaviors
Byron M. Lowens, University of Michigan: Awareness, Intention, (In)Action: Individuals’ Reactions to Data Breaches
Monika Leszczyńska, Columbia Law School: Defining the Boundaries of Marketing Influence: Public Perception and Unfair Trade Practices in the Digital Era
Klaus M. Miller, HEC Paris: Using the Dual-Privacy Framework to Understand Consumers’ Perceived Privacy Violations Under Different Firm Practices in Online Advertising
Moderators: Robin Rosen Spector, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection; and Bhavna Changrani, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection
11:05 a.m. Morning Break
11:15 a.m. Morning Remarks
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter
Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
11:25 a.m. Panel 3: Privacy Enhancing Technologies and Design Analysis
Jane Im, University of Michigan: Less is Not More: Improving Findability and Actionability of Privacy Controls for Online Behavioral Advertising
Patrick Parham, University of Maryland, College Park: Private Attributes: The Meanings and Mechanisms of “Privacy-Preserving” Adtech
Sebastian Zimmeck, Wesleyan University: Generalizable Active Privacy Choice: Designing a Graphical User Interface for Global Privacy Control
Moderators: Ayesha Rasheed, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection; and David Walko, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection
12:20 p.m. Lunch Break
12:55 p.m. Afternoon Remarks
Alvaro Bedoya
Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
1:05 p.m. Panel 4: Health
Hiba Laabadli, Duke Kunshan University: “I Deleted It After the Overturn of Roe v. Wade”: Understanding Women’s Privacy Concerns Toward Period-Tracking Apps in the Post Roe v. Wade Era
Ari B. Friedman, University of Pennsylvania: A Nationally Representative Content Analysis of Hospital Website Privacy Policies
Jesutofunmi Omiye, Stanford University: Beyond the Hype: Large Language Models Propagate Race-Based Medicine
Moderators: Elisa Jillson, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection; and Crystal Grant, Senior Technology Advisor, Federal Trade Commission, Office of Technology
2:00 p.m. Panel 5: Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Patrick Gage Kelley, Google: "There will be less privacy, of course": How and Why People in 10 Countries Expect AI Will Affect Privacy in the Future
Umar Iqbal, Washington University in St. Louis: LLM Platform Security: Applying a Systematic Evaluation Framework to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plugins
Batul Yawer, Arizona State University: Reliability and Validity of a Widely-Available AI Tool for Assessment of Stress Based on Speech
Moderators: Julia Horwitz, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection; and Ronnie Solomon, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection
2:55 p.m. Afternoon Break
3:05 p.m. Panel 6: Mobile Device Security
Abbas Acar, formerly Florida International University, currently Harbor Labs: 50 Shades of Support: A Device-Centric Analysis of Android Security Updates
Allan Lyons, University of Calgary: Log: It’s Big, It’s Heavy, It’s Filled with Personal Data! Measuring the Logging of Sensitive Information in the Android Ecosystem
Sumanth Rao, University of California, San Diego: No Privacy Among Spies: Assessing the Functionality and Insecurity of Consumer Android Spyware Apps
Moderators: Madeleine Varner, Senior Technology Advisor, Federal Trade Commission, Office of Technology; and Andrew Hasty, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection
4:00 p.m. Panel 7: Deepfakes
Mehrdad Saberi, University of Maryland: Robustness of AI-Image Detectors: Fundamental Limits and Practical Attacks
Yan Ju, University at Buffalo, State University of New York: Improving Fairness in Deepfake Detection
Moderators: Spencer Jackson-Kaye, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Division of Advertising Practices; and Leah Frazier, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection
4:40 p.m. Closing Remarks
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