{"id":2,"date":"2020-06-24T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/lassonde-privacy\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-11-27T21:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:03:46","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/lassonde\/privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to The Privacy Rhythm Research Lab!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\" style=\"gap: 40px; margin-bottom: 40px; align-items: flex-start;\">\n  <p><!-- Left Column: Lab Info --><\/p>\n  <div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex: 1;\">\n    <p><!-- Lab Logo --><\/p>\n    <figure><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; border-radius: 24px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/lassonde\/privacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2023\/09\/Logo-03-2-1024x715.png\" alt=\"Privacy Rhythm Lab Logo\"><\/figure>\n    <div style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n      <figure><\/figure>\n    <\/div>\n    <p><!-- Lab Description --><\/p>\n    <p style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 24px; background: #f0f4f8; padding: 16px; border-left: 4px solid #4a90e2; border-radius: 8px;\">\n      Welcome to the <strong>Privacy &amp; Sociotechnical Systems Rhythm Lab<\/strong>!<br>\n      We explore the intersection of technology, society, and ethics to design <em>privacy solutions that are meaningful, usable, and trustworthy<\/em>.<br>\n      Our work combines technical tools, policy analysis, and social research to help systems respect people's expectations and values.\n    <\/p>\n    <p><!-- Research Interests --><\/p>\n    <p style=\"font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px;\">Research Interests (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/lassonde\/privacy\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">selected publications<\/a>)<\/p>\n    <ul style=\"margin-bottom: 24px; line-height: 1.6;\">\n      <li>Usable privacy<\/li>\n      <li>Sociotechnical systems<\/li>\n      <li>Contextual Integrity: Theory and Applications<\/li>\n      <li>Information Technology Policy<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <p><!-- Combined CTA --><\/p>\n    <p style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5;\">\n      <a style=\"display: inline-block; padding: 14px 20px; background: #4a90e2; color: white; border-radius: 8px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.3s;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/lassonde\/privacy\/join-the-privacy-rhythm-lab\/\">\n        Interested in working on <strong>privacy<\/strong> in EdTech or other <strong>sociotechnical systems<\/strong>? Check out opportunities to join the lab\n      <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We are grateful for the support:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/lassonde\/privacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2025\/11\/nserc-logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-620\" style=\"width:228px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2185\" height=\"483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/lassonde\/privacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2025\/11\/sshrc-wordmark-color-eng.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-590\" style=\"width:435px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"538\" height=\"269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/lassonde\/privacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2025\/11\/UB_Logos_12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-592\" style=\"width:417px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"371\" height=\"136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/lassonde\/privacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2025\/11\/privacy-commissioner-canada-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-589\" style=\"width:312px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex: 1;\">\n  <p><!-- News Heading --><\/p>\n  <p style=\"font-size: 1.5rem; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px;\">News<\/p>\n  <hr style=\"border-color: #f44336; margin-bottom: 16px;\">\n  <p><!-- RSS Feed --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-stretch is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-group wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-647 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news category-paper category-publications\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">[\ud83d\udea8New Paper] CHI'26 on Privacy Cards<\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-03-05T16:17:12-05:00\">5 March 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Prof Shvartzshnaider's co-authored a paper on \"Privacy Cards: Surfacing mental models and exploring privacy concerns of voice-first ambient interface\" that will appear in the proceedings of the conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'26), a leading international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Cuadra A, Sabie S, Shvartzshnaider Y, Estrin D. Privacy Cards for Surfacing Mental<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/lassonde\/privacy\/2026\/03\/05\/new-paper-chi26-on-privacy-cards\/\">More<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-642 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Invited Talk at NYC Privacy Day<\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-12-16T11:06:37-05:00\">16 December 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Professor Shvartzshnaider gave a talk on \"\u00a0In LLMs We Trust? A Contextual Integrity Perspective\" at the recent NYC Privacy Day. \"Hosted by\u00a0DLI\u00a0(Digital Life Initiative) and\u00a0SETS\u00a0(Security, Trust, and Safety Initiative),\u00a0NYC Privacy Day 2025\u00a0is an informal setting to gather and connect researchers working on data privacy at different institutions in the greater New York City area.\u00a0The schedule<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/lassonde\/privacy\/2025\/12\/16\/invited-talk-at-nyc-privacy-day\/\">More<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-497 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-paper category-publications\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">[New paper] Position: Contextual Integrity is Inadequately Applied to Language Models<\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-07-20T09:58:05-04:00\">20 July 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Professor Shvartzshnaider presented a new paper, co-authored with Vasisht Duddu, at the recent ICML 2025 conference titled: \"Position: Contextual Integrity is Inadequately Applied to Language Models\" \"Machine learning community is discovering Contextual Integrity (CI) as a useful framework to assess the privacy implications of large language models (LLMs). This is an encouraging development. The CI<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/lassonde\/privacy\/2025\/07\/20\/new-paper-position-contextual-integrity-is-inadequately-applied-to-language-models\/\">More<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-494 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news category-talks\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Talk at HotPETS 2025<\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-07-20T09:53:21-04:00\">20 July 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Professor Shvartzshnaider presented at the recent HotPETS 2025 In LLMs We Trust? A Contextual Integrity PerspectiveYan Shvartzshnaider (¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ), Vasisht Duddu (University of Waterloo) The talk broadly discuss recent results in LLM-CI: Assessing Contextual Integrity Norms in Language Models \"Large language models (LLMs), while memorizing parts of their training data scraped from the Internet, may<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/lassonde\/privacy\/2025\/07\/20\/talk-at-hotpets-2025\/\">More<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Privacy &amp; Sociotechnical Systems Rhythm Lab! We explore the intersection of technology, society, and ethics to design privacy solutions that are meaningful, usable, and trustworthy. Our work combines technical tools, policy analysis, and social research to help systems respect people's expectations and values. 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