privacy-tech-lab

An overview of how Global Privacy Control works.

June 1-2, 2022

In Arlington, Virginia at the NSF's 2022 Security and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Principal Investigators' Meeting.

A picture of Aram Zucker-Scharff presenting code to implement GPC at the California Privacy Protection Agency stakeholder Zoom call.

May 5, 2022

We present GPC. At the stakeholder meeting of the California Privacy Protection Agency our collaborator Aram Zucker-Scharff explains how easy it was to implement GPC at the Washington Post.

A screenshot of the Security Now YouTube show featuring Global Privacy Control in episode 869.

May 3, 2022

"For me, I am liking the new add-on OptMeowt."
Steve Gibson features OptMeowt on Security Now!

A statue of the Greek philosohper Herodotus in a thinking pose.

April/May 2022

Thinking and debating. Sebastian participates in an NSF panel reviewing funding proposals at the Computer Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate.

April 1, 2022

I'm Feeling Lucky! We are grateful for receiving funding from Google for our work on Privacy Pioneer! Right on!

March 24, 2022

Sebastian weighs in on Emerging State Privacy Laws: Are They Working for Consumers and Businesses?

March 8, 2022

Welcome, Justin!
Justin Casler joins the privacy-tech-lab.

March 8, 2022

Welcome, Sophie!
Sophie Eng joins the privacy-tech-lab.

A very new age looking picture showing the sun behind a purple background.

January 18, 2022

New DRP blog post: "The Digital Rights Protocol: Threading Privacy Rights into the Internet".

January 13, 2022

As many people ask, Sebastian explains the similiarities and differences of the Data Rights Protocol (DRP) and Global Privacy Control (GPC).

A picture of the Connecticut State Senate building in Hartford.

December 20, 2021

Sebastian presented GPC at the Connecticut Senate Data Privacy Working Group Meeting (via Zoom from Germany :) ).

November 8, 2021

Sebastian writes a Comment on the Proposed Rulemaking under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 (Proceeding No. 01-21) to the California Privacy Protection Agency.

Announcement of the Data Rights Protocol roundtable event showing pictures of Sebastian Zimmeck, Rebecca Weiss, and Daza Greenwood.

October 19, 2021

Sebastian participated in the Data Rights Protocol roundtable of Consumer Reports and hosted by the MIT Media Lab.

October 5, 2021

Bye Bye, Stanley!

We farewell Stanley. Thank you for all your contributions to GPC. Excellent work!

A picture of buildings on the Wesleyan University campus to advertise the poster session of the 2021 summer research program.

July 29, 2021

Mesdames et messieurs, Eliza and Owen are presenting our work at Wesleyan's Summer Research Poster Session!

A picture of Oliver Wang sitting in a building with sunlight coming through overhead windows.

July 19, 2021

Welcome, Oliver!
Oliver Wang joins the privacy-tech-lab.

A illustration of a female influencer in front of various social media company logos

July 17, 2021

New blog post: Opting Out May Not Prevent Websites From Collecting Your Data. (Image credit Social Ninja.)

A picture of the Time magazine cover from December 27, 1926 showing Alfred P. Sloan.

June 28, 2021

We are thrilled to receive funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop a generalizable active privacy choice mechanism. In other words, let's make it easier for Internet users to express their privacy choices. More to come ... .
(Time magazine cover in the public domain.)

A stylized picture of a feedback form on with three choices and the top choice marked.

June 2021

Sebastian participates in an NSF panel reviewing funding proposals for the Computer Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate. Quite fun and lots of good ideas! (Image credit Internet Reputation Management.)

Banner for Wesleyan's commencement in 2021.

May 26, 2021

Raf and David are graduating! Thank you for your hard work all these years and making PrivacyFlash Pro the success it became! It was a pleasure. All the best for your future! We also farewell Daniel K. Thank you for all your contributions to GPC. Excellent work!

A picture of Chunyue Ma sitting on the stairs in front of a Wesleyan building.

May 18, 2021

Welcome, Chunyue!
Chunyue Ma joins the privacy-tech-lab.

A picture of Stanley Markman standing in front of a house with some trees.

March 19, 2021

Welcome, Stanley!
Stanley Markman joins the privacy-tech-lab.

March 15, 2021

Welcome, Kiryl!

Kiryl Beliauski joins the privacy-tech-lab for the remainder of the semester.

The banner ad for the Shasha seminar 2021 showing blurry technology and reading Truth (and Lies) in Our Time.

March 12, 2021

A busy Friday with a talk at Sepideh Ghanavati's privacy group at the University of Maine and Wesleyan'sShasha Seminar: Truth (and Lies) in Our Time moderating Mitali Thakor's great talk on deep fakes.