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Paper about the demand of timestamp precision at IFIP SEC 2022

The project is also represented at this year’s IFIP SEC conference by Christian Burkert with the paper “Data Minimisation Potential for Timestamps in Git: An Empirical Analysis of User Configurations”.

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Paper about privacy-friendly timestamp alternatives at GI Sicherheit 2022

At the conference GI Sicherheit 2022 in Karlsruhe, Christian Burkert presents the paper “PrivacyDates: A Framework for More Privacy-Preserving Timestamp Data Types”.

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Announcing GI WebTalk: Gläserne Software-Entwickler*innen

On March 21st from 6 p.m., we will be discussing the impact of digital working environments on employee privacy. The discussion is hosted by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) in the WebTalk series. See here for the event announcement.

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Toolkit for more privacy-preserving dates in apps released

EMPRI-DEVOPS studies have repeatedly found that tools often use timestamps unnecessarily and in excessive precision. Today we release django-privacydates, a demonstrator for more privacy-preserving date alternatives for the Django web framework.

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Case study: Privacy concerns with BigBlueButton's new Learning Dashboard

Learning Analytics Dashboards is a new feature in BigBlueButton giving moderators statistics about each participant’s engagement. In this case study, we describe how this might violate user privacy and suggest an improved design. As a workaround, we show how Learning Dashboard can be disabled.

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Browser extension GitHub Privacy and timestamp study

Today we released version 1.0 of our public demonstrator GitHub Privacy. The browser extension enables a more privacy-friendly display of timestamps on GitHub’s web interface. The extension also allows volunteers to contribute statistics about their timestamp needs for a study.

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Paper about the compilation of privacy compliance documentation from app data models on IFIP SEC 2021

At the conference IFIP SEC 2021, Christian Burkert is presenting the paper “Compiling Personal Data and Subject Categories from App Data Models”.

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Paper about traffic leaks by VPN apps in Wi-Fi hotspots at IEEE ICC 2021

At the virtual conference IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2021 Christian Burkert is presenting the paper “Analysing Leakage during VPN Establishment in Public Wi-Fi Networks” today.

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Paper at DPM 2019

Christian Burkert is presenting the paper “Towards Minimising Timestamp Usage In Application Software” today at the 14th Data Privacy Management Workshop, which is being held as part of ESORICS 2019 in Luxembourg.

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Kick-off Meeting

Today, the official meeting of all project partners will take place at the Department of Informatics at the University of Hamburg to kick off the project.

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