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Helen Nissenbaum is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research spans across social sciences with a strong focus on privacy, security, and data protection. They have contributed extensively to understanding the ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence as well as topics related to COVID-19 digital contact tracing.

Their recent papers highlight issues at the intersection of technology, society, and privacy. These include:

  • Accountability in an Algorithmic Society: Relationality, Responsibility, and Robustness in Machine Learning (2022, 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency)
  • Disaster privacy/privacy disaster (2020, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)
  • Individual Acceptance of Using Health Data for Private and Public Benefit: Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021, Harvard Data Science Review)
  • Stop the Spread: A Contextual Integrity Perspective on the Appropriateness of COVID-19 Vaccination Certificates (2022, 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency)
  • An Ethical Highlighter for People-Centric Dataset Creation (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))

Frequent coauthors in their work include Frauke Kreuter, Yan Shvartzshnaider, Frederic Gerdon, Ruben L. Bach, and Stefan Zins.

Helen Nissenbaum's publications often appear in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, arXiv (Cornell University), the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, IEEE Security & Privacy, and the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.

Their research addresses subfields including sociology and political science, information systems, safety research, information systems and management, and communication.

Main research topics covered by their work are:

  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation
  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Disaster Management and Resilience

Best Publications

  • Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life

    Helen Nissenbaum

  • Privacy as contextual integrity

    Helen Nissenbaum

  • Bias in computer systems

    Batya Friedman;Helen Nissenbaum

  • Commons-based Peer Production and Virtue

    Yochai Benkler;Helen Nissenbaum

  • Shaping the Web: Why the Politics of Search Engines Matters

    Lucas D. Introna;Helen Nissenbaum

  • Digital Disaster, Cyber Security, and the Copenhagen School

    Lene Hansen;Helen Nissenbaum

  • A Contextual Approach to Privacy Online

    Helen Nissenbaum

  • Adnostic: Privacy Preserving Targeted Advertising.

    Vincent Toubiana;Arvind Narayanan;Dan Boneh;Helen Nissenbaum

  • Privacy and contextual integrity: framework and applications

    A. Barth;A. Datta;J.C. Mitchell;H. Nissenbaum

  • Protecting Privacy in an Information Age: The Problem of Privacy in Public

    Helen Nissenbaum

  • Embodying values in technology: Theory and practice

    Mary Flanagan;Daniel C. Howe;Helen Nissenbaum

  • Big data’s end run around anonymity and consent

    Solon Barocas;Helen Nissenbaum

  • Technology, autonomy, and manipulation

    Daniel Susser;Beate Roessler;Helen Nissenbaum

  • Accountability in a computerized society

    Helen Nissenbaum

  • Computers, ethics & social values

    Deborah G. Johnson;Helen Nissenbaum

  • How computer systems embody values

    H. Nissenbaum

  • Online Manipulation: Hidden Influences in a Digital World

    Daniel Susser;Beate Roessler;Helen Nissenbaum

  • Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good: Frameworks for Engagement

    Julia I. Lane;Victoria Stodden;Stefan Bender;Helen Fay Nissenbaum

  • Values at Play in Digital Games

    Mary Flanagan;Helen Nissenbaum

  • Values at play: design tradeoffs in socially-oriented game design

    Mary Flanagan;Daniel C. Howe;Helen Nissenbaum

  • Privacy in Context

    Helen Nissenbaum

Frequent Co-Authors

Batya Friedman
Batya Friedman University of Washington
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian New York University
Edward W. Felten
Edward W. Felten Princeton University
Prateek Mittal
Prateek Mittal Princeton University
Anupam Datta
Anupam Datta Carnegie Mellon University
Serge Egelman
Serge Egelman International Computer Science Institute
John C. Mitchell
John C. Mitchell Stanford University
Arvind Narayanan
Arvind Narayanan Princeton University
Nick Feamster
Nick Feamster University of Chicago
Dan Boneh
Dan Boneh Stanford University

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