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              <div class="date">January 30, 2025</div>
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                Samir, Francisca, Matt, and Ebuka - aka the Fantastic Four -
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                Connecticut, Colorado, and California.
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              <div class="date">January 19-22, 2025</div>
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                Sebastian participates in the
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                  >Dagstuhl Seminar 25042 on Online Privacy: Transparency,
                  Advertising, and Dark Patterns</a
                >. From left to right: First row: Günes Acar, Nataliia Bielova,
                Zubair Shafiq, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius. Second row:
                Anastasia Shuba, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Yana Dimova, John
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                Egelman, Cristiana Santos. Fourth row: Sandra Siby, Colin M. Gray,
                Johanna Gunawan, Imane Fouad, Christine Utz. Fifth row: Lesley E.
                Weaver, Athina Markopoulou, Martin Thomson, Sebastian Zimmeck,
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                Online guest lecture on privacy preference signals and GPC in
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                class at the University of Maine.
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                Welcome, Samir!<br />
                Samir Cerrato joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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                We wrote a
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                  >letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom</a
                >
                in support of Assembly Bill 3048 for opt out settings in browsers
                and mobile operating systems.
                <a
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              <div class="date">September 16, 2024</div>
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                Welcome, Ebuka!<br />
                Ebuka Akubilo joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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              <div class="date">September 5, 2024</div>
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                Talk at the Future of Privacy Forum's Ad Practices Working Group
                call on
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                  >Generalizable Active Privacy Choice</a
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              <div class="date">August 25, 2024</div>
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                Welcome, Anan!<br />
                Anan Afrida joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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                Welcome, Patton!<br />
                Patton Yin joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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              <div class="date">July 26, 2024</div>
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                Francisca presenting our work on detecting Websites' GPC
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              <div class="date">June 29, 2024</div>
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                Tamara Chuang of The Colorado Sun
                <a
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                  >covers our work</a
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                as GPC is becoming effective in Colorado on July 1, 2024. (Picture
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                Talk at Comcast's Monthly Cybersecurity and Privacy Presentation
                Series on
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              <div class="date">June 21, 2024</div>
              <p>
                Our
                <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14938"
                  >paper on GPC for Android</a
                >
                was accepted at the
                <a href="https://www.ivir.nl/plsce2024/"
                  >Privacy Law Scholars Conference Europe</a
                >
                in Amsterdam in October.
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              <div class="date">May 13, 2024</div>
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                Celebrating the end of the academic year with Daniel Goldelman,
                Judeley Jean-Charles, and the whole team!
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                Welcome, Kelleigh!<br />
                Kelleigh Entrekin joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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              <div class="date">April 18, 2024</div>
              <p>
                From Sci-Fi to Reality: Demystifying AI. Presenting a Master Class
                at
                <a
                  href="https://www.wesleyan.edu/admission/admittedstudents/2024ProgramBook.pdf"
                  >Wesleyan University's WesFest 2024</a
                >.
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              >
                <img
                  src="static/images/CA_AB_3048.webp"
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              <div class="date">March 26, 2024</div>
              <p>
                <a
                  href="https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/research/consumer-reports-submits-coalition-letter-in-support-of-ca-a-b-3048-mandatory-browser-opt-out-signals/"
                  >Together with Consumer Reports we support CA A.B. 3048.</a
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                This California bill requires browsers and devices to include
                opt-out preference signal settings.
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              <div class="date">March 6, 2024</div>
              <p>
                We discussed
                <a
                  href="https://www.ftc.gov/media/privacycon-2024-part-1-march-6-2024"
                  >user interfaces for GPC at the FTC PrivacyCon 2024</a
                >
                (video starts at 2:42:25;
                <a
                  href="https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/9-Zimmeck-Designing-a-Graphical-User-Interface-for-Global-Privacy-Control.pdf"
                  >paper</a
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                ).
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              <div class="date">March 5, 2024</div>
              <p>
                Together with Jane Zsigmond, Justin Brookman, and Robin Berjon,
                Sebastian participates in a GPC panel
                <a href="https://coag.gov/blog-post/prepared-remarks-3-5-24/"
                  >hosted by the Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser</a
                >. Paul Ohm moderated.
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              <div class="date">January 2, 2024</div>
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                Welcome, Francisca!<br />
                Francisca Wijaya joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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              <div class="date">December 29, 2023</div>
              <p>
                The Office of the Colorado Attorney General
                <a href="https://coag.gov/uoom/"
                  >recognizes GPC as a valid opt out signal per the Colorado
                  Privacy Act</a
                >.
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              >
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              <div class="date">December 7, 2023</div>
              <p>
                Feature in The Wesleyan Connection:
                <a
                  href="https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2023/12/07/privacy-controls-important-for-users-study-says/"
                  >Privacy Controls Important For Users, Study Says</a
                >.
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              <div class="date">December 5, 2023</div>
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                Welcome, Nate!<br />
                Nate Levinson joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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                <img
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              <div class="date">December 4, 2023</div>
              <p>
                <a
                  href="https://sebastianzimmeck.de/zimmeckEtAlPrivacyPioneer2024.pdf"
                  >Our Privacy Pioneer paper</a
                >
                is accepted at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2024.
                Launching to Bristol in 3, 2, 1, ...
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              <div class="date">November 30, 2023</div>
              <p>
                Welcome, Matt!<br />
                Matt May joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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              <div class="date">October 31, 2023</div>
              <p>
                Back at Carnegie Mellon! Presenting GPC at the
                <a href="https://privacy.cs.cmu.edu/masters/seminar/index.html"
                  >Current Topics in Privacy Seminar</a
                >.
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              >
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              <div class="date">October 30, 2023</div>
              <p>
                Talk at the Community Foundation of Middlesex County:
                <a
                  href="https://middlesexcountycf.org/news-events/events/ai-101-with-sebastian-zimmeck-wesleyan-university/"
                  >AI 101: The Myths, the Legends, and the Everyday</a
                >.
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              <div class="date">October 4, 2023</div>
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                Welcome, Zachary!<br />
                Zachary Liu joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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              <div class="date">September 28, 2023</div>
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                Welcome, Dominik!<br />
                Dominik Dadak joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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              <div class="date">September 27, 2023</div>
              <p>
                Welcome, Aleks!<br />
                Aleks Jacewicz joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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              >
                <img
                  src="static/images/IAPP_Pune.jpeg"
                  alt="An illustration of a woman sitting on a couch with her laptop computer and wearing a Global Privacy Control Shirt."
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              <div class="date">August 16, 2023</div>
              <p>
                GPC goes to India: We thank the
                <a
                  href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/iapp-pune-knowledgenet-chapter_privacy-privacylaw-privacybydesign-activity-7096401814484398080-_CfQ"
                  >IAPP Pune KnowledgeNet</a
                >!
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              >
                <img
                  src="static/images/Labyrinth.jpg"
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              <div class="date">August 3, 2023</div>
              <p>
                <a
                  href="https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2023/08/03/how-to-quickly-get-to-the-important-truth-inside-any-privacy-policy"
                  >What's the deal with privacy policies?</a
                >
                We contributed to a piece in The Markup. While there should be
                <a
                  href="https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/08/05/the-one-page-on-every-website-that-tells-you-the-truth"
                  >One Page on Every Website That Tells You the Truth</a
                >, that is often not the case.
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              <div class="date">August 1, 2023</div>
              <p>
                Designing a user interface for Global Privacy Control (GPC).<a
                  href="https://sebastianzimmeck.de/zimmeckEtAlGPC2024.pdf"
                  >Our paper</a
                >
                is accepted at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2024.
                See you in Bristol!
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              <div class="date">July 13, 2023</div>
              <p>
                94% of people would opt out of web tracking using GPC.
                <a href="https://youtu.be/t1GGqlCtK0w?si=jfIS30fm_SPcETnG"
                  >We said it at PETS in Lausanne.</a
                >
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              >
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              <div class="date">May 21, 2023</div>
              <p>
                Op-ed in the Hartford Courant:
                <a
                  href="https://www.courant.com/2023/05/21/sebastian-zimmeck-we-need-a-federal-privacy-law-heres-why/"
                  >We need a federal privacy law. Here's why.</a
                >
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              <div class="date">May 12, 2023</div>
              <p>
                Farewell Kate (Wesleyan BA/MA), Logan (Squarespace), Eliza
                (Alarm.com), and Daniel (Wesleyan BA/MA)! At Exley Science Center
                from left to right: Jocelyn, Inesh, Bella, Sophie, Nishant,
                Oliver, Kate, Sebastian, Eliza, Candace, Wesley, Harry, Daniel,
                Joe, Logan
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              >
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              <div class="date">April 12, 2023</div>
              <p>
                We are weighting in:
                <a
                  href="https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/ai-programs-chatgtp-medical-industry-17889561.php"
                  >What happens when ChatGPT enters the medical field? CT experts
                  explain</a
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              <div class="date">April 4, 2023</div>
              <p>
                TikTok goes to Washington! Sebastian discusses online privacy at
                <a
                  href="https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/2023-04-04/tiktok-goes-to-washington"
                  >Where We Live</a
                >
                of WNPR Connecticut Public Radio.
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              <div class="date">April 1, 2023</div>
              <p>
                We hosted this year's Shasha Seminar at Wesleyan and discussed
                <a
                  href="https://www.wesleyan.edu/shasha/seminar2022-2023/index.html"
                  >A Roadmap for Internet Privacy</a
                >! The Wesleyan Connection
                <a
                  href="https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2023/04/04/internet-privacy-roadmap-developed-at-shasha-seminar/"
                  >covered it</a
                >.
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              <div class="date">March 30, 2023</div>
              <p>
                Over the next few months Sebastian will help the Office of the
                Connecticut Attorney General to enforce the
                <a
                  href="https://portal.ct.gov/AG/Sections/Privacy/The-Connecticut-Data-Privacy-Act"
                  >Connecticut Data Privacy Act</a
                >.
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              >
                <img
                  src="static/images/Colorado_Aspen.jpg"
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              <div class="date">January 7, 2023</div>
              <p>
                <a
                  href="https://coag.my.salesforce.com/sfc/p/#t00000004XX8/a/t0000001SOCQ/3GpRckMyoVP5IAeANNlVjvFL8secvIv18edee33d414"
                  >Comments to the Colorado Privacy Act Part 2!</a
                >
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              <div class="date">December 27, 2022</div>
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                Welcome, Candace!<br />
                Candace Walker joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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              <div class="date">December 22, 2022</div>
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                Welcome, Nishant!<br />
                Nishant Aggarwal joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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              <div class="date">December 20, 2022</div>
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                Welcome, Wesley!<br />
                Wesley Tan joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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              <div class="date">December 20, 2022</div>
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                Welcome, Harry!<br />
                Harry Yu joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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              <div class="date">December 19, 2022</div>
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                Our paper
                <a href="https://sebastianzimmeck.de/zimmeckEtAlGPC2023.pdf"
                  >Usability and Enforceability of Global Privacy Control</a
                >
                will appear at PETS 2023!
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              <div class="date">October 21, 2022</div>
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                At Boston University's
                <a
                  href="https://pets-for-the-public-interest-a23co.ondigitalocean.app/"
                  >Privacy Enhancing Technologies for the Public Interest
                  workshop</a
                >. Presenting how we work in the privacy-tech-lab.
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              <div class="date">October 2022</div>
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                Play it again! Sebastian participates in an NSF panel reviewing
                funding proposals at the
                <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=cise"
                  >Computer Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate</a
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              <div class="date">October 3, 2022</div>
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                Google talk! The whole
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                  >Privacy Pioneer</a
                >
                team --- Daniel, Logan, Justin, Judeley, and Sebastian --- is
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              <div class="date">September 22, 2022</div>
              <p>
                Our new OptMeowt promo video! OptMeowt is developed by Oliver,
                Jocelyn, Sophie, Kate, Kuba, and Sebastian. (Video created and
                narrated by Sophie.)
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                New GPC implementation guide:
                <a
                  href="https://globalprivacycontrol.org/Implementing%20GPC%20for%20Publishers.pdf"
                  >How to Implement Global Privacy Control (GPC) for Publishers</a
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                Together with Justin Brookman and Alex Cash, Sebastian
                participates in a OneTrust webinar on
                <a
                  href="https://www.onetrust.com/resources/global-privacy-control-ccpa-enforcement-of-gpc-opt-out-signals/"
                  >Global Privacy Control: CCPA Enforcement of GPC Opt-Out
                  Signals</a
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              <div class="date">September 8, 2022</div>
              <p>
                Welcome, Kate!<br />
                Kate Hausladen joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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              <div class="date">August 21, 2022</div>
              <p>
                Sebastian provides
                <a
                  href="https://sebastianzimmeck.de/zimmeckCCPAComment_2022_08_21.pdf"
                  >comments on the proposed regulations under the California
                  Consumer Privacy Act of 2020</a
                >
                to the California Privacy Protection Agency.
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                New NSF award! We will collaborate with
                <a href="https://mediaproject.wesleyan.edu/about/team-2/"
                  >Erika Franklin-Fowler, Michael M. Franz, and Travis N.
                  Ridout</a
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                of the Wesleyan Media Lab to investigate
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                  >ad election transparency</a
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              <div class="date">July 28, 2022</div>
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                Bella presents the latest on
                <a
                  href="https://github.com/privacy-tech-lab/gpc-privacy-choice/blob/main/research/tassoneEtAlEnhancingOnlinePrivacy2022Poster.pdf"
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                at Wesleyan's
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              <div class="date">July 27, 2022</div>
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                Welcome, Judeley!<br />
                Judeley Jean-Charles joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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                Sebastian provides
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              <div class="date">July 1, 2022</div>
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                Welcome, Joe!<br />
                Joe Champeau joins the privacy-tech-lab.
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