This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $393,256 to George Mason University to conduct research investigating the broader privacy ecosystems that vulnerable populations experience, beyond just individual mobile applications. The key products and services being delivered under this three-year award include: Qualitative research, including...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $234,347 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan) for the project "Collaborative Research: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: Beyond App-Centric Privacy: Investigating Privacy Ecosystems Among Vulnerable Populations." The project aims to go beyond app-centric approaches to...
The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $145,615 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to support research investigating privacy negotiation behaviors among multiple stakeholders in smart environments. The three-year award running from July 2023 to June 2026 will fund the design, development and deployment of an interactive system to collect real-world data on privacy negotiations as they occur between various...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The award will support research from June 2023 to May 2026 to address concerns about privacy risks from personal information sharing on social media, especially for low-income and underrepresented groups. The university will study how socioeconomic status...
This $100,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund research to understand the impact of privacy interventions on the online publishing ecosystem. The three-year award to the New Jersey Institute of Technology will support studies of how publishers comply with and implement privacy regulations, how users respond to new privacy tools, and the effects on user engagement, publisher revenues from online advertising, and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $199,076 Project Grant to the FPF Education And Innovation Foundation for collaborative research titled "A Large-Scale, Longitudinal Resource to Advance Technical and Legal Understanding of Textual Privacy Information." The three-year award runs from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). The grant will support the development of a...
This three-year, $600,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to improve computing security and privacy tools and processes for scientific end-users. The University of Maryland, College Park will investigate how scientists currently learn about and implement security-relevant behaviors for their equipment and data through surveys, interviews, documentation review, and other methods. Insights on existing tools,...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the development of an empathy-based framework to enhance privacy education and design. The project team at the University of Notre Dame is using generative AI to create synthetic personas with AI-generated personal data. These personas are then used to design interactive sandboxes and developer tools that allow individuals to empathize with the...
This three-year, $110,645 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), supports research into the implementation of privacy in software systems by software developers. The Stanford University research team will examine discussions among developers in response to new privacy regulations and laws, related code updates in public repositories, and developer reactions to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $249,703 Project Grant to the Trustees of Boston University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025 to develop methods for integrating legal and technical approaches to privacy in the design of sociotechnical software systems. Specifically, the project aims to establish technical interpretations of legal privacy concepts that...