Research

“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” — Scott McNealy, 1999

“If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can’t protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take a long step toward making a transition from a free society to a totalitarian society.” – Whitfield Diffie

“If you mind your own business, you won’t be minding mine.” – Hank Williams

I examine the vexing problems created by the exponential creation and sharing of information, especially personal information. As our lives become increasingly digital, we create, share, and leave information nearly everywhere, both deliberately and inadvertently. What are the long term implications in a world where nearly every aspect of our lives is recorded or documented in some way? Maybe nothing at all . . . but who knows?
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Publications

    • Jennifer King and Andrew McDiarmid. “Where’s The Beep? Security, Privacy, and User Misunderstandings of RFID.” In proceedings of USENIX Usability, Security, and Psychology. San Francisco, CA, April 14, 2008. Available at: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1387652
    • M. Meingast, J. King, D. Mulligan. “ Security and Privacy Risks of Embedded RFID in Everyday Things: the e-Passport and Beyond,” Journal of Communications, 2(7), 2007.
    • Egelman, Serge, King, Jen, Miller, Robert C., Ragouzis, Nick, and Shehan, Erika. “Security User Studies: Methodologies and Best Practices.” Extended abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007). San Jose, CA, USA, April 28, 2007.

 

Invited Talks and Panels

    • “A Supermajority of Californians Support Limits on Law Enforcement Access to Cell Phone Location Information,” given at the 37th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC), September 26, 2008, George Mason University, Alexandria, VA.
    • “Where’s the Beep? Security, Privacy, and User Misunderstandings of RFID,” given at “Pay On The Go: Consumers and Contactless Payment,” Federal Trade Commission Town Hall Meeting, July 24, 2008, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
    • “The State of CCTV in the United States,” given at the 3rd Annual Surveillance and Society Conference “InVisibilities: The Practice and Experience of Surveillance in Everyday Life,” April 3, 2008, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England, UK.
    • Panelist, “CCTV: Developing Privacy Best Practices,” Department of Homeland Security Workshop, December 17-18, 2007, Alexandria, VA.
    • “Sensors as Disruptive Technology: Guidelines for Future Development,” given at the IBM Sensor Day, October 2007, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
    • “Embedded RFID and Everyday Things: A Case Study of the Security and Privacy Risks of the U.S. e-Passport,” given at the IEEE International Conference on RFID, March 2007, Grapevine, TX.
    • “RFID: A Case Study of the Risks and Benefits of Location-Aware Technologies,” given at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, March 8, 2006, San Diego, CA.