#CHI2026 program is shaping up: here's the first glimpse at the list of accepted workshops: chi2026.acm.org/workshops/ac... This will be a really fun @chi.acm.org ! (Reminder that there's no added fee this year to attend workshops, they will happen throughout the conference!)

Academic Equinox: the moment when your Google Scholar citations from last year equal your citations this year.

קול קורא לכנס הפרטיות ה-13! בפקולטה למשפטים, אונ' ת"א הכנס ייערך ביום א, 3.5.2026

Thank you, Alon Zoizner, for inviting me to speak at the Communication Department seminar at the University of Haifa and for the opportunity to present, for the first time, the work by Adam Aviv, Oshrat Ayalon, and me on Kosher phone users’ perceptions of safety, privacy, and community.

Congrats to @lorriecranor.bsky.social for writing a young children’s book about privacy. Great story in the WaPo about it and so happy it also mentions my book about privacy for older kids www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Final version! In Defense of Privacy-as-Control (Properly Understood), 65 Jurimetrics (2026 forthcoming) I defend Privacy-as-Control, explain why its wrong to reduce it to notice & choice, and argue it serves as a common denominator for privacy's many theories papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

UC faculty and the @aaup.org demand the end of mandatory surveillance software use across the UC system. The future belongs to people, not to big brother! www.science.org/content/arti...

Working in Israel on disinformation? (mitigating it, not spreading it). The Israeli Internet Association has a new grant (50K NIS) open to activists, initiatives, and orgs to develop new solutions. I'm on the board of the committee (w @avischarf.bsky.social etc) www.isoc.org.il/disinformati...

I was interviewed in Haaretz’s economics paper, TheMarker, about the job market in Industrial Engineering and Management jobs and the effects of AI on junior jobs in this market >> www.themarker.com/career/2025-...

It doesn’t make much sense to move to Bluesky but then to not use it pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40637733/

We were awarded a very exciting new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) with colleagues Adam Aviv from The George Washington University and Oshrat Ayalon from the University of Haifa. >>

We have a new paper just published in Information, Communication & Society. Maayan Cohen and I are looking at how the discourse around algorithmic bias was taken up, amplified, and reframed across ideological lines in the launch of ChatGPT 3.5. >> doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Should I update this starter pack of Israeli academics? Anyone who I should add? Say hi or tag someone! go.bsky.app/Q6MFTcY

It is time to wrap up my term as Head of the School of Industrial & Intelligent Systems Engineering at Tel Aviv University. A lot has happened during this time: first and foremost, our department became a school with a new name that reflects our broadaning research and teaching interests >>

I would adjust my settings asap on Venmo if I don't want to get phished by the whole world.

I was very happy to give a Cybersecurity Colloquium seminar at the The Data Science Institute at Columbia University, presenting with this stunning view. I was talking about: When Differential Privacy Meets Human Decision-Making.

What's the meaning of life after the #chi2026 deadline had passed?

Everyone is working on AI, but how can we design AI-based systems that are actually friendly and usable? Bidding closes soon at TAU. so it’s a good time to remind that I'll be teaching the graduate course “Human–AI Interaction” (2 hours, open to the entire campus). Here is a short explanation >>

It will be my second year co-chairing the Privacy and Security subcommittee at #CHI2026, with the awesome Florian Schaub and Emilee Rader. Abstract submission is today, and we are very excited to review the list of papers that you'll send our way...

The preprint of our paper, “Differential Privacy Configurations in the Real World: A Comparative Analysis,” by (brilliant) student Michael Khavkin and myself, has been published on the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering website. Read it here: www.computer.org/csdl/journal...

On Wednesday, September 3, the senior faculty at Tel Aviv University will hold a warning strike. We will head to Jerusalem to protest against the dismantling of the rule of law, the continuation of the war, and the indifference toward the hostages.

Exciting news: our paper “Differential Privacy Configurations in the Real World: A Comparative Analysis” was just accepted to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Another great paper of Michael Khavkin’s Ph.D.! Here is a short thread about the study >>

Hundreds of thousands gathered yesterday in Tel Aviv calling the government to return the hostages and end the war. By the way, the demonstration happened about two hours after a Houthi ballistic missile had cleared people off the streets.

And if you want to read more about AI hype I recommend my brilliant friend @danmk.bsky.social's amazing new article on it www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

בוקר לאחר ההחלטה האסונית של הקבינט אמש על כיבוש עזה, מתפרסמת עוד עצומה של אקדמאים. הפעם זו עצומה משותפת של סטודנטים וחברי סגל מאוניברסיטת חיפה, האוניברסיטה שלי. האם זה ישנה למישהו? לא בטוח בכלל? האם אני שלם עם כל פסיק בעצומה, לא ממש. ועם זאת, בתקופה כזאת, אסור לעמוד מנגד.

Demonstrating tonight at Tel Aviv to put an end to the war and return the hostages immediately.

Call for Proposals: Elkana Forum Workshops: Rethinking Scientific Problems Through Dialogue with Historical & Philosophical Perspectives #hps #philsci #histSTEM (@odedrechavi.bsky.social @eranto.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social maybe of interest to you)

I'm starting to believe that if you're not using LLMs when reviewing papers, your reviews aren't as good as they could be. What do you think?

I’m happy to see the presidents of Tel Aviv Univeristy, the Hebrew Univeristy, Weizmann Institute and others higher eds, join the call to end the Cabinet’s criminal policies in Gaza. It’s easy to be cynical about these types of letters, but remember that 80% of the uni budget come from the state.

Excited to share that I’ve received an ISF grant to study deep analysis of deceptive user interface design patterns. Casual games, I'm coming for your dark patterns.

ישראל היא השדרות של העולם

Seen on my street

It’s hard to communicate, or even to process, what it means to live and work in Israel right now. The contrast is surreal: spending the night under the threat of ballistic missiles, exploding in a random neighbourhood, and waking up to a morning everyday work >>

One month apart.

🆕New article in New Media & Society!🆕 On how cross-cultural encounters shape techies' perceptions of algorithms and their ethics. Focusing on immigrants to Silicon Valley, it calls for a more diverse view of SV's ideologies and their entanglement with algorithmic production. 🧵👇 tinyurl.com/dmknms

This is the paper that *they* don’t want you to read! "Investigating the Impact of Differential Privacy Obfuscation on Users' Data Disclosure Decisions" by Michael Khavkin and me was published (as a pre-proof) by the Decision Support Systems journal. Here is a short thread about it >>

Great video by Apple about broad privacy app development at #WWDC25. Always great to see privacy entering the mainstream!

אמ;לק: פוסטדוק למחקר על פרטיות, איתי ב @taulaw.bsky.social, לא רק למשפטנים.ות! ובפירוט, פה

Published! - What is the role of legal scholars when populism and democratic erosion are on the rise? Some lessons from the Israeli experience. With @yanivroznai.bsky.social @eliavl.bsky.social @adamshinar.bsky.social and Ittai Bar-Simam-Tov academic.oup.com/icon/article...

*Privacy Engineering for NGOs* @birnhack.bsky.social, Noa Diamond (Privacy Clinic at Tel Aviv University), and I are delighted to launch a two-year research project on Privacy Engineering for NGOs. The project is funded by a competitive grant from an Israeli Class Action settlement against Meta >>

It's kind of funny that the only way to change the default mail application on a mac is through Apple's own Mail app

Thinking about Ph.D. or postdoc studies in the U.S.? Or about relocating to the Silicon Valley? Trump's executive order that eliminates birthright citizenship for children born to parents on H1B or J1 visas casts serious uncertainty >> www.politico.com/live-updates...

'very tenured' is such a vibe

Do we witness growing disparities between two classes of people based on whether their data is used to train AI models? Noa Mor Golan and I wrote a short article, featured on the Data Life Initiative at Cornell Tech website >> www.dli.tech.cornell.edu/post/data_su...

I was summoned yesterday to Channel 12 News to comment on AI and the war in Gaza, and talked about how operational challenges in controlling AI can be handled to make it safer to citizens on the ground. Short clip here (in Hebrew).

Just returned from a couple of days hiking in the Eilat mountains, and was deeply impressed with new installations of water reservoirs for thru-hiking on the Israel Trail. The project, built and twice-weekly resupplied by the Natural Parks Authority, makes long-distance hiking way more accessible >>

A new regulation from the Israel Ministry of Health allows hospitals to record patients in intensive care on video, without their consent, for “quality control and learning” purposes. In a letter, we detail our concerns for patients' privacy and dignity >> www.haaretz.co.il/news/2024-11...

A starter pack of Israeli academics. Let me know if you want me to add you to the list (or want out) go.bsky.app/Q6MFTcY