This study addresses the challenge of balancing learning analytics with student privacy by introducing SynEdu-HEDL, a privacy-preserving synthetic dataset. It enables secure data sharing while maintaining realism, supporting research, collaboration, and ethical AI in higher education.
Sam Hafferty is part of the 2024 – 2026 Emerging Scholar Program cohort at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP). Hafferty is contributing to work concerning data privacy regulation and broadband equity. Princeton undergraduate Jason Persaud ‘27 recently sat down with Hafferty to discuss how they got started in this type of work, […] The post Meet the Researcher: Sam Haffe…
Bitcoin transactions appear to be private because names are not attached to accounts. But that is not sufficient to ensure privacy; if it were, much of my work in data privacy would be unnecessary. It’s quite possible to identify people in data that does not contain any direct identifiers. I hesitate to use the term […] The post Silent Payments first appeared on John D. Cook .
A recent data leak involving South Korean AI image generator GenNomis has reignited critical conversations around privacy, security, and ethical AI use. The unprotected database, uncovered by a security researcher and reported by Wired, exposed more than 95,000 image generation prompts—some of which included disturbing and potentially illegal content. While GenNomis acted quickly to lock ... Read…
The recent DeepSeek news has set off a flurry of hot takes and opinion pieces, but for most organizations, the immediate effect is a desire to understand if and how employees are using the DeepSeek app. Perhaps the terms of service allow the company to use the data your employees share, does that fit your ... Read more » The post These Are Not the Prompts You (Deep)Seek appeared first on WitnessA…
The promise of AI is clear—tools like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google’s AI models are revolutionizing how businesses handle everything from customer service to data analysis. But with great power comes great responsibility, and along with that responsibility, a whole host of new risks. One of the most dangerous and rapidly evolving attack vectors against AI ... Read more » The post Why Relying on A…
