Helen Nissenbaum#Browser extensions
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| field = Information science, Human–Computer Interaction, Privacy, Digital Media
| alma_mater = Stanford University
University of the Witwatersrand
| work_institution = Cornell Tech
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| known_for = Contextual integrity
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| awards = Barwise Prize (2014)
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Helen Nissenbaum is professor of information science at Cornell Tech.{{Cite web|url= https://nissenbaum.tech.cornell.edu/index.html|title=Helen Nissenbaum|website=nissenbaum.tech.cornell.edu|access-date=2017-12-14}} She is best known for the concept of "contextual integrity" and her work on privacy, privacy law, trust, and security in the online world. Specifically, contextual integrity has influenced the United States government's thinking about privacy issues.{{cite news|author1=Alexis Madrigal|title=The Philosopher Whose Fingerprints Are All Over the FTC's New Approach to Privacy|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/the-philosopher-whose-fingerprints-are-all-over-the-ftcs-new-approach-to-privacy/254365/|accessdate=20 February 2018|work=The Atlantic|date=29 March 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/main_cv.html |title=CV Helen Nissenbaum |publisher=New York University |date= |accessdate=2013-04-11}} Nissenbaum co-created the TrackMeNot and AdNauseam browser extensions, which demonstrated the use of obfuscation to maintain user privacy.
Early life and education
Nissenbaum studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, graduating in 1976. She then went on to study at Stanford University, where she completed a Master's in the social science of education in 1978, and a PhD in philosophy in 1983.
Work
= Grants =
Nissenbaum has received grants from the National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Ford Foundation, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.{{cite web|title=Helen Nissenbaum Bio|url=http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/main_bio.html|website=New York University|accessdate=20 February 2018}}
= Browser extensions =
She has also contributed to several browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome. TrackMeNot was the first extension that she co-created in 2006.{{cite web|url=http://www.aprja.net/?p=2510 |title=Surveillance Countermeasures: Expressive Privacy via Obfuscation|last1=Howe |first1=Daniel C. |date=2016 |website=aprja.net |publisher=APRJA |accessdate=14 November 2016|quote=Some critics questioned TrackMeNot's effectiveness against machine-learning attacks, some cast it as a misuse of bandwidth, and others found it unethical.}} TrackMeNot uses the notion of privacy through obfuscation to protect the user against online identification, surveillance, and profiling. Adnostic{{cite web |title=Adnostic: Privacy Preserving Targeted Advertising |url=https://crypto.stanford.edu/adnostic/ |website=crypto.stanford.edu |access-date=26 August 2021}} was created in 2013 to enable online ad targeting without compromising user's privacy.{{cite web |last1=Nissenbaum |first1=Helen |title=From preemption to circumvention |url=https://nissenbaum.tech.cornell.edu/papers/Preemption_Circumvention_Nissenbaum.pdf |access-date=26 August 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Toubiana |first1=Vincent |last2=Narayanan |first2=Arvind |last3=Boneh |first3=Dan |last4=Nissenbaum |first4=Helen |last5=Barocas |first5=Solon |title=Adnostic: Privacy Preserving Targeted Advertising |url=https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2010/adnostic-privacy-preserving-targeted-advertising/ |website=Network and Distributed System Security Symposium |publisher=Internet Society |access-date=26 August 2021 |date=1 March 2010}}{{cite journal |last1=Nissenbaum |first1=Helen |title=A Contextual Approach to Privacy Online |journal=Daedalus |date=Fall 2011 |volume=140 |issue=4 |pages=32–48 |url=https://direct.mit.edu/daed/article-pdf/140/4/32/1830026/daed_a_00113.pdf |publisher=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |location=Cambridge, MA |doi=10.1162/DAED_a_00113 |s2cid=207589315 |access-date=26 August 2021|url-access=subscription }} AdNauseam, created in 2014, follows a similar obfuscation strategy for online ads.{{cite web |last1=Defer |first1=Aurélien |title=Internet users are 'poisoning' their personal data in the fight against online surveillance |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2022/04/30/internet-users-are-poisoning-their-personal-data-in-the-fight-against-online-surveillance_5982052_13.html |website=Le Monde |access-date=18 December 2024 |language=en |date=30 April 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230913021424/https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2022/04/30/internet-users-are-poisoning-their-personal-data-in-the-fight-against-online-surveillance_5982052_13.html |archive-date=13 September 2023 |url-access=subscription }}
Publications
Nissenbaum has written or edited a number of papers{{cite web |title=Curriculum Vitae: Articles |url=https://nissenbaum.tech.cornell.edu/main_cv.html#pub |website=Helen Nissenbaum |publisher=tech.cornell.edu |access-date=26 August 2021}} and books:
- {{cite book|author=Helen Nissenbaum|title=Emotion and Focus|date=1986|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780937073209|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YTACoQEACAAJ}}
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Johnson|editor1-first=Deborah G.|editor2-last=Nissenbaum|editor2-first=Helen|title=Computers, Ethics & Social Values|date=1995|publisher=Prentice Hall|isbn=9780131031104|url=https://archive.org/details/computersethicss00debo|url-access=registration}}
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Nissenbaum|editor1-first=Helen|editor2-last=Price|editor2-first=Monroe E.|title=Academy & the Internet|date=2004|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=9780820462035|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8UX1L0RzIk8C}}
- {{cite book|author1=Helen Nissenbaum|title=Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life|date=2009|publisher=Stanford University Press|location=Stanford, CA|isbn=9780804772891|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NN1uGn1Jd8C}}
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Lane|editor1-first=Julia|editor2-last=Stodden|editor2-first=Victoria|editor3-last=Bender|editor3-first=Stefan|editor4-last=Nissenbaum|editor4-first=Helen|title=Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good: Frameworks for Engagement|date=2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107067356|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XjmNAwAAQBAJ}}
- {{cite book|author1=Mary Flanagan|author2=Helen Nissenbaum|title=Values at Play in Digital Games|date=2014|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=9780262027663|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iIYRBAAAQBAJ}}
- {{cite book|author1=Finn Brunton|author2=Helen Nissenbaum|title=Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest|date=2015|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=9780262029735|location=Cambridge, MA|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pDeFCgAAQBAJ}}
Honors and awards
- 2014 Barwise Prize of the American Philosophical Association{{cite web |title=K. Jon Barwise Prize |url=https://www.apaonline.org/page/barwise |website=American Philosophical Association |access-date=20 December 2020}}
- 2017 honorary doctorate from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg{{cite web |title=Honorary Doctorates |url=https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutions/faculty/business-and-economics/people-directory/honorary-doctorates.html |website=Leuphana Universität Lüneburg |access-date=20 December 2020 |language=en |archive-date=19 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719090114/https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutions/faculty/business-and-economics/people-directory/honorary-doctorates.html |url-status=dead }}
- 2019 distinguished fellow of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence{{cite web |title=Distinguished Fellows |url=https://hai.stanford.edu/people/distinguished-fellows |website=Stanford HAI |access-date=20 December 2020 |language=en}}
- 2021 Covey Award of the [http://iacap.org International Association of Computing and Philosophy]
References
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External links
- {{cite web |title=TrackMeNot |url= https://trackmenot.io/ }}
- {{cite web |title=AdNauseam |url=https://adnauseam.io/ }}
- {{cite web |title=Adnostic: Privacy Preserving Targeted Advertising |url=https://crypto.stanford.edu/adnostic/ |website=crypto.stanford.edu }}
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