9:00 am Introduction

Jamie Hine

Senior Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Division of Privacy & Identity Protection

9:05 am Welcome to PrivacyCon

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter

Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission 

Opening Remarks

Erie Meyer

Chief Technologist, Federal Trade Commission 

9:20 am Panel 1: Algorithms

Basileal Imana, University of Southern California, Auditing for Discrimination in 

Algorithms Delivering Job Ads

Hongyan Chang, National University of Singapore, On the Privacy Risks of Algorithm 

Fairness

Martin Strobel, National University of Singapore, On the Privacy Risks of Model 

Explanations 

Moderator: Devin Willis, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Division of Privacy & 

Identity Protection
10:15 am Algorithms Presentation 

Ziad Obermeyer, University of California at Berkeley, Algorithmic Bias Playbook 

Presentation 

Moderator: Lerone Banks, Technologist, Federal Trade Commission, Division of 

Privacy & Identity Protection

10:45 am Morning Break

10:55 am Panel 2: Privacy – Considerations and Understanding

Nico Ebert, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Bolder is Better: Raising User 

Awareness Through Salient and Concise Privacy Notices

Siddhant Arora, Carnegie Mellon University, Finding a Choice in a Haystack: Automatic 

Extraction of Opt-Out Statements from Privacy Policy Text

Cameron Kormylo, Virginia Tech, Reconsidering Privacy Choices: The Impact of 

Defaults, Reversibility, and Repetition 

Peter Mayer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Now I’m a bit angry – Individuals’ 

Awareness, Perception, and Responses to Data Breaches that Affected Them

Moderator: Danielle Estrada, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Division of Privacy 

& Identity Protection

12:15 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Panel 3: AdTech

Imane Fouad, Inria (France), Missed by Filter Lists: Detecting Unknown Third-Party 

Trackers with Invisible Pixels 

Janus Varmarken, University of California Irvine, The TV is Smart and Full of Trackers: 

Measuring Smart TV Advertising and Tracking 

Miranda Wei, University of Washington, What Twitter Knows: Characterizing Ad 

Targeting Practices, User Perceptions, and Ad Explanations Through Users’ Own 

Twitter Data 

Moderator: Miles Plant, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Division of Privacy & 

Identity Protection

1:55 pm Afternoon Break
2:05 pm Panel 4: IoT

Anupam Das, North Carolina State University, Hey Alexa, is this Skill Safe: Taking a 

Closer Look at the Alexa Skill Ecosystem 

Jeffrey Young, Clemson University, Measuring the Policy Compliance of Voice Assistant 

Applications

Pardis Emami-Naeni, University of Washington, Which Privacy and Security Attributes 

Most Impact Consumers’ Risk Perception and Willingness to Purchase IoT Devices?

Genevieve Liberte, Florida International University, Real-time Analysis of Privacy 

(un)Aware IoT Applications

Moderator: Linda Holleran Kopp, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Division of 

Privacy & Identity Protection

3:25 pm Afternoon Break 2 

3:35 pm Panel 5: Privacy – Children and Teens

Mohammad Mannan, Concordia University (Canada), Betrayed by the Guardian - 

Security and Privacy Risks of Parental Control Solutions and Parental Controls: Safer 

Internet Solutions or New Pitfalls?

Cameryn Gonnella, BBB National Programs, Risky Business - The Current State of Teen 

Privacy in the Android App Marketplace 

Moderator: Manmeet Dhindsa, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Division of 

Privacy & Identity Protection

4:15 pm Panel 6: Privacy and the Pandemic 

Marzieh Bitaab, Arizona State University, Scam Pandemic: How Attackers Exploit 

Public Fear through Phishing 

Christine Geeng, University of Washington, Social Media COVID-19 Misinformation 

Interventions Viewed Positively, But Have Limited Impact

Moderator: Christina Yeung, Technologist, Federal Trade Commission, Office of 

Technology Research and Investigation

4:55 pm Closing Remarks

Lerone Banks

Technologist, Federal Trade Commission, Division of Privacy & Identity Protection