Topic: Alessandro Acquisti

Sasha Romanosky (Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy), David A. Hoffman (Temple University - James...
Feds are wrestling with how to deal with facial recognition technology as it becomes more accurate, cheaper, and able to cross-check images on...
CSO - Facebook will reach likely reach one billion users this year or next.. . The privacy and security implications of this astonishing amassing ...
We all know that computer crimes and hacking are at an all time high, and everything done on-line can be tracked, retrieved, and used against us...
If you ever wanted to guess someone's security questions-things like city of birth, names of pets and mother's maiden name-just friend them on Facebook or some other social network.. More than 24 Americans 18 years or older leave social network ...

How Websites Make You Spill Your Secrets

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found that the appearance of website has a big effect on how honestly people answer personal questions put to them by the site. The Carnegie Mellon researchers designed several tests to determine what encourages people to ...
Emily Brandon wrote an article for U.S. News World Report titled 10 Things You Didn't Know About Social Security. The most interesting of the 10...

Online Privacy from a Different Angle

Check out highlights from Lora's poll of industry experts on the topic of online security.. The San Francisco-based startup's co-founders, Ginsu Yoon and Ian Wilkes, formerly business and engineering managers at Second Life, told The New York Times: And as ...
Keeping your Social Security number secret may not be enough to protect you from identity theft. To help credit bureaus spot fraud, the Social Security Administration (SSA) publishes all records for deceased Social Security holders, as well as publicly describing the method ...
As his friends flocked to social networks like Facebook and MySpace, Alessandro Acquisti, an associate professor of information technology at Carnegie Mellon University, worried about the downside of all this online sharing. Acquisti tested his idea in a study, reported earlier this ...