CyLab Seminar: Marshini Chetty

November 13, 2023

12:00 p.m. ET

Zoom or Panther Hollow 4105 (4th Floor of the CIC)

Marshini Chetty

*Please note: Professor Chetty will be presenting remotely. This CyLab seminar is open only to partners and Carnegie Mellon University faculty, students, and staff.

Speaker: Marshini Chetty
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago

Talk Title:

I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me: Privacy and Security Issues In K-12 and Beyond

Abstract: Ensuring privacy and security in the K12 space is crucial today as the scope of EdTech products used in schools is ever expanding, enabling increased tracking and monitoring of sensitive information all around. In this talk, drawing from our own research studies, I will provide an overview of why privacy and security matters so much in schools by showing who the stakeholders are in the space, giving an overview of what can go wrong when data policies are not clear, and finally showing potential privacy issues with EdTech in K12. I will also discuss some example projects related to how online consumer protection policies on the Internet affect user privacy more broadly. Finally, I will outline suggestions for next steps in this space to better enhance online privacy protections.

Bio: Marshini Chetty is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago where she directs the Amyoli Internet Research Laboratory (AIR lab). She specializes in human-computer interaction, usable privacy and security, and ubiquitous computing. Her work has won best paper awards at SOUPS, CHI, and CSCW, and she was a co-recipient of the Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers award. Her research has been featured in the NYTimes, CNN, Washington Journal, BBC, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, WIRED, and Slashdot. She has received generous funding from the National Science Foundation, through grants and an NSF CAREER award, as well as the National Security Agency, Facebook, and multiple Google Faculty Research Awards.

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