http://userpages.umbc.edu/~akmassey/Aaron Massey -- Assistant Professor of Software Engineering2016-03-09T19:41:12ZAaron Masseyhttp://userpages.umbc.edu/~akmasseytag:userpages.umbc.edu,2016-03-09:/~akmassey/posts/2016-03-09-apply-for-a-google-policy-fellowship.htmlApply for a Google Policy Fellowship2016-03-09T19:41:12Z2016-03-09T19:41:12Z
<p>Many years ago, <a href="2008-03-31-google-policy-fellowship.html">I was a Google Policy Fellow</a>. It’s an incredible
experience, and I highly recommend it. Here’s an overview of the program from
<a href="https://www.google.com/policyfellowship/">Google’s Policy Fellowship Website</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The Google Policy Fellowship program offers undergraduate, graduate, and law
students interested in Internet and technology policy the opportunity to
spend the summer contributing to the public dialogue on these issues, and
exploring future academic and professional interests.</p>
<p>Fellows will have the opportunity to work at public interest organizations
at the forefront of debates on broadband and access policy, content
regulation, copyright and creativity, consumer privacy, open government,
government surveillance, data security, data innovation, free expression and
more. More information about the host organizations and the areas of focus
for the fellows is outlined here.</p>
<p>Fellows will be assigned a lead mentor at their host organizations and will
have the opportunity to work with several senior staff members over the
course of the summer. Fellows will be expected to make substantive
contributions to the work of their organization, including conducting policy
research and analysis, drafting reports and white papers, attending
government and industry meetings and conferences, and participating in other
advocacy activities.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The deadline is March 25th, so if you’re eligible and interested in technology
policy issues, be sure to apply before then!</p>
tag:userpages.umbc.edu,2016-02-11:/~akmassey/posts/2016-02-11-umbc-50th-anniversary-keynote-template.htmlUMBC 50th Anniversary Keynote Template2016-02-11T15:41:12Z2016-02-11T15:41:12Z
<p><a href="http://50.umbc.edu">UMBC turns 50</a> in September, and the media and branding folks at the
university created <a href="http://50.umbc.edu/50th-toolkit/">50th Anniversary Branding Toolkit</a>. Unfortunately, it
doesn’t include a Keynote template. So I made one:</p>
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<p><a href="../documents/UMBC-50.kth">Get it here.</a> Please let me know what you think of it.</p>
tag:userpages.umbc.edu,2016-02-02:/~akmassey/posts/2016-02-02-telerise-2016-call-for-papers.htmlTELERISE 2016 Call for Papers2016-02-02T14:41:12Z2016-02-02T14:41:12Z
<p>I’m pleased to be a member of the program committee for <a href="http://www.iit.cnr.it/telerise2016/">TELERISE 2016</a>, a
workshop on technical and legal aspects of data privacy and security. Here’s
an overview of the workshop:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Information sharing on the Web is essential for today’s business and
societal transactions. Nevertheless, such a sharing should not violate the
security and privacy requirements either dictated by Law to protect data
subjects or by internal regulations provided both at organisation and
individual level. An effectual, rapid, and unfailing electronic data sharing
among different parties, while protecting legitimate rights on these data,
is a key issue with several shades. Among them, how to translate the
high-level law obligations, business constraints, and users’ requirements
into system-level privacy policies, as well as engineering efficient and
practical Web applications-based solutions for policy definition and
enforcement. TELERISE aims at providing a forum for researchers and
engineers, in academia as well as in industry, to foster an exchange of
research results, experiences, and products in the area of privacy
preserving, secure data management, and engineering on the Web, from a
technical and legal perspective. The ultimate goal is to conceive new trends
and ideas on designing, implementing, and evaluating solutions for
privacy-preserving information sharing, with an eye to the cross-relations
between ICT and regulatory aspects of data management and engineering.</p>
<p>The list of topics includes (but it is not limited to):</p>
<ul>
<li>Model-based and experimental assessment of data protection</li>
<li>Privacy in identity management and authentication</li>
<li>Modeling and analysis languages for representation, visualization,
specification of legal regulations</li>
<li>Technical, legal, and user requirements for data protection</li>
<li>User-friendly authoring tools to edit privacy preferences</li>
<li>IT infrastructures for privacy and security policies management</li>
<li>IT infrastructure for supporting privacy and security policies evolution</li>
<li>Privacy and security policies conflict analysis and resolution strategies</li>
<li>Electronic Data Sharing Agreements representation: languages and
management infrastructure</li>
<li>Cross-relations between privacy-preserving technical solutions and legal
regulations</li>
<li>Privacy aware access and usage control</li>
<li>Privacy and security policies enforcement mechanisms</li>
<li>Privacy preserving data allocation and storage</li>
<li>Software systems compliance with applicable laws and regulations</li>
<li>Heuristic for pattern identification in law text</li>
<li>Empirical analysis of consumer’s awareness of privacy and security
policies</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>Papers are due March 23rd. Accepted submissions will be published as a
post-proceeding event in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
series.</p>
tag:userpages.umbc.edu,2015-11-05:/~akmassey/posts/2015-11-05-introduction-to-it-privacy-available-on-kindle.htmlIntroduction to IT Privacy Available on Kindle2015-11-05T18:41:12Z2015-11-05T18:41:12Z
<p>The IAPP published a book titled “Introduction to IT Privacy: A Handbook for
Technologists,” and I was one of the contributing authors. I wrote about this
<a href="http://userpages.umbc.edu/~akmassey/posts/2014-03-13-iapp-introduction-to-it-privacy-available-now.html">when it first came out</a>, but I thought I would mention that it was made
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B013VH3V8G">available on Kinde</a> earlier this semester.</p>
tag:userpages.umbc.edu,2015-11-04:/~akmassey/posts/2015-11-04-privacy-security-forum.htmlPrivacy + Security Forum2015-11-04T13:44:29Z2015-11-04T13:44:29Z
<p>I recently gave a presentation at the <a href="https://www.privacyandsecurityforum.com/">2015 Privacy + Security Forum</a> about
the “lost in translation problem” that often results in miscommunication or
misunderstanding between legal teams and engineering teams. I’ve posted my
slides below.</p>
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<p>The remainder of the slides are <a href="https://www.privacyandsecurityforum.com/schedule-with-slides/">available online</a> for participants.</p>