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UMD iSchool Welcomes Seven New Faculty Members
With strengths in library and archives innovation, digital curation, criminal justice data science, socio-technical aspects of cybersec …
Maryland Today: Clock’s Ticking Until TikTok Ban, But Does It Make Sense?, featuring Jen Golbeck
As most social media apps are collecting users' personal data, Jen Golbeck shares why banning TikTok and WeChat won't solve the problem …
Charles Harry Awarded a Maryland Innovation Grant
Dr. Harry will use the grant to create a web application for his cybersecurity framework that provides an analytic approach to assess …
More Than Just Privacy: Using Contextual Integrity to Evaluate the Long-Term Risks from COVID-19 Surveillance Technologies
Jessica Vitak examines whether users' data is protected on contact tracing apps.
Mic: The Bitcoin scam that hit Twitter could have been way worse, featuring Jen Golbeck
Recent Twitter hacks demonstrate how misusage of the platform can be detrimental depending on the goals and timing of the attackers. …
CNBC: How the government could ban TikTok — and what else you need to know, featuring Jen Golbeck
The US government is considering banning TikTok, one of the most popular apps on the market, due to concerns that the app may be sharin …
Press Release: Naeemul Hassan Awarded $228,000 NSF Grant For Collaborative Project
Dr. Naeemul Hassan and collaborators aim to design and develop computational models to automatically detect video clickbait.
