Carnegie Mellon University

Current Topics in Privacy Seminar

The Current Topics in Privacy Seminar is a three-credit course (17-702) taught in the Fall and Spring semesters. Members of the university community are invited to participate in the seminar even if they are not enrolled in the course. In this seminar course students will discuss recent papers and current public policy issues related to privacy. Privacy professionals from industry, government, and non-profits will deliver several guest lectures each semester. 

Members of the CMU community interested in receiving notifications about the seminars each week should contact the course instructor to request to be added to the email list. 

Instructors:  Hana Habib and Norman Sadeh

Time and location: Tuesdays, 12:30-1:50 PM.  All seminars will be held in Hamburg Hall, 1002 and will be available via Zoom

Spring 2024 Privacy Seminar Speakers

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January 16th 

Omer Akgul - CyLab

Investigating Influencer VPN Ads on YouTube

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January 23rd

 R. Jason Cronk

Privacy Risk, What is it? 

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January 30th 

Caroline Louveaux - Mastercard

Meet the Game Changers: Privacy Engineers at Mastercard


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February 6th 

Jayson Jin - Intuit 

Engineers and Lawyers: Collaboration in the organization

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February 13th 

George Ratcliffe - Stott and May

Privacy Careers 

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February 20th 

Yaxing Yao - Virginia Tech

Privacy-Empowering Mechanisms in a Hyper-Connected World  

Video

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February 27th 

Sauvik Das - CMU (HCII)

Privacy in the age of AI: What's changed and what should we do about it? 

Video

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March 12th

Eunice Wells -Google

The Digital Markets Act and the Ads Ecosystem 

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March 19th

Mark Melynchenko - BDO

Implementing Privacy Technology Solutions

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March 26th

 Saima Fancy - Ontario Health

Data Minimization and Pseudonymization  

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April 2nd 

Nicole Uribe - Microsoft

The Underdog of Privacy: Data Subject Rights 

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April 9th 

Jonathan Foote - Fastly

Managing bots: AI, privacy, and the web

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April 16th 

Malu Septien Milan - Accenture

Data Management & Governance Playbook for Privacy Compliance 

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April 23rd

Elijah Bouma-Sims

Exploring the Privacy Experiences of Closeted Users of Online Dating Services in the US

Claire Chen

Is a Trustmark and QR Code Enough? The Effect of IoT Security and Privacy Label Information Complexity on Consumer Comprehension and Behavior