Sebastian Zimmeck
Interdisciplinary Privacy & Security Research

Publications

     

  1. A Privacy Analysis of Cross-device Tracking
    Sebastian Zimmeck, Jie S. Li, Hyungtae Kim, Steven M. Bellovin, and Tony Jebara
    26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), Vancouver, BC, CA, August 2017
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  2. Using Machine Learning to Improve Internet Privacy
    Sebastian Zimmeck
    Columbia University Academic Commons, New York, NY, USA, March 2017
    Dissertation  BibTeX   Bluebook

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  3. Automated Analysis of Privacy Requirements for Mobile Apps
    Sebastian Zimmeck, Ziqi Wang, Lieyong Zou, Roger Iyengar, Bin Liu, Florian Schaub, Shomir Wilson, Norman Sadeh, Steven M. Bellovin, and Joel Reidenberg
    24th Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 2017 (also presented at SOUPS 2017, PrivacyCon 2017, and PLT 2016)
    Paper  BibTeX   Bluebook Short Paper (PLT 2016)  Talk   Poster   Slides  

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  4. The Creation and Analysis of a Website Privacy Policy Corpus
    Shomir Wilson, Florian Schaub, Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Frederick Liu, Sushain Cherivirala, Pedro Giovanni Leon, Mads Schaarup Andersen, Sebastian Zimmeck, Kanthashree Mysore Sathyendra, N. Cameron Russell, Thomas B. Norton, Eduard Hovy, Joel Reidenberg, and Norman Sadeh
    54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Berlin, Germany, August 2016
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  5. Demystifying Privacy Policies with Language Technologies: Progress and Challenges
    Shomir Wilson, Florian Schaub, Aswarth Dara, Sushain K. Cherivirala, Sebastian Zimmeck, Mads Schaarup Andersen, Pedro Giovanni Leon, Eduard Hovy, Norman Sadeh
    LREC 1st Workshop on Text Analytics for Cybersecurity and Online Safety (TA-COS 2016), Portorož, Slovenia, May 2016
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  6. “I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints.” – Revealing the Demographics of Location Data
    Chris Riederer, Sebastian Zimmeck , Coralie Phanord, Augustin Chaintreau, and Steven M. Bellovin
    3rd ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN), Palo Alto, CA, USA, November 2015 (also presented at ICWSM 2015, PLSC 2015, NetMob 20015, and COSN 2014)
    Paper  BibTeX   Bluebook   Short Paper (ICWSM 2015)  BibTeX (ICWSM 2015)   Bluebook (ICWSM 2015)   Poster (COSN 2014)

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  7. Privee: An Architecture for Automatically Analyzing Web Privacy Policies
    Sebastian Zimmeck and Steven M. Bellovin
    23rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), San Diego, CA, USA, August 2014 (also presented at PLSC 2014 and FoPNaC 2014)
    Paper   BibTeX   Bluebook   Talk (USENIX 2014)   Talk (FoPNaC 2014)   Poster   Slides   Software (GitHub)   Software (chrome web store)

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  8. When Enough is Enough: Location Tracking, Mosaic Theory, and Machine Learning
    Steven M. Bellovin, Renée M. Hutchins, Tony Jebara, and Sebastian Zimmeck
    8 N.Y.U. J.L. Liberty, 556 (2014) (also presented at PLSC 2013)
    Paper   BibTeX   Bluebook   Slides   Blog (NY Times Bits)

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  9. The Information Privacy Law of Web Applications and Cloud Computing
    Sebastian Zimmeck
    29 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J. 451 (2013)
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  10. A Game-theoretic Model for Reasonable Royalty Calculation
    Sebastian Zimmeck
    22 Alb. L.J. Sci. & Tech. 357 (2012)
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  11. Use of Functional Claim Elements for Patenting Computer Programs
    Sebastian Zimmeck
    12 J. High Tech. L. 168 (2011)
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  12. Patent Eligibility of Programming Languages and Tools
    Sebastian Zimmeck
    13 Tul. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 133 (2010)
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  13. Grundlagen der Nutzungsrechtsübertragung an Urheberrechtlich Geschützten Computerprogrammen durch den Lizenznehmer
    Sebastian Zimmeck
    1 ZGE 324 (2009)
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About Me

I am a computer scientist and lawyer. My research covers privacy and security as well as intellectual property. I am a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University.

I design and implement systems that advance public policy in privacy and security for Internet users, ad tech businesses, and governmental regulators.

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