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Dec 03

“Looking at You” illustrates today’s privacy dilemma in the form of an opera

A team of CyLab researchers helped put on an opera called Looking at You, which ran in New York City in September and explored issues of digital privacy in today’s screen-filled world.

Nov 22

Sharing accounts in the workplace is a mess

In a new study, CyLab researchers found that people in the workplace are sharing accounts like Facebook, Google, and company email accounts for a variety of reasons. The way they share these accounts could lead to mishaps.

Nov 15

CyLab researchers propose new rules for Internet fairness

Just weeks after a team of Carnegie Mellon researchers showed that Google’s new congestion control algorithm (CCA) was giving an unfair advantage to its own traffic over services using legacy algorithms, the same team has proposed new guidelines on how future algorithms should be developed.

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