Our paper published in the journal Machine Learning Knowledge Extraction, was selected as the cover page of Volume 4, Issue 1.

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An Analysis of Cholesteric Spherical Reflector Identifiers for Object Authenticity Verification Our paper entitled “An Analysis of Cholesteric Spherical Reflector Identifiers for Object Authenticity Verification”, published in the journal Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction, was selected as the cover page of Volume 4, Issue 1. This research has the potential to change how we authenticate … Continued

An Analysis of Cholesteric Spherical Reflector Identifiers for Object Authenticity Verification

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityAn Analysis of Cholesteric Spherical Reflector Identifiers for Object Authenticity VerificationMónica P. Arenas , Hüseyin Demirci and Gabriele Lenzini Abstract:Arrays of Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors (CSRs), microscopic cholesteric liquid crystals in a spherical shape, have been argued to become a game-changing technology in anti-counterfeiting. Used to build identifiable tags or coating, … Continued

Proactive Legal Design for Health Data Sharing based on Smart Contracts

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityProactive Legal Design for Health Data Sharing based on Smart ContractsArianna Rossi, Helena Haapio, Abstract:The technology of smart contracts neglects the fact that people use contracts as social resources to manage their relations. Th e inflexibility that they introduce, by design, might short-circuit a number of social uses to which … Continued

Cookie Banners, What’s the Purpose? Analyzing Cookie Banner Text Through a Legal Lens

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityCookie Banners, What’s the Purpose? Analyzing Cookie Banner Text Through a Legal LensCristiana Santos , Arianna Rossi, Lorena Sanchez Chamorro, Kerstin Bongard, Ruba Abu-SalmaAbstract:A cookie banner pops up when a user visits a website for the first time, requesting consent to the use of cookies and other trackers for a … Continued

Training Data Scientists in Legal Practice

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Report from the SnT Annual Report: Link   In 2017, it was proposed by The Economist that the world’s most valuable resource was no longer oil, but data. In fact, as early as 2006, this shift in our technological activity was hypothesised, including the value that mining and analysing data would hold for us in … Continued

“I personally relate it to the traffic light”: a user study on security & privacy indicators in a secure email system committed to privacy by default

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical Cybersecurity“I personally relate it to the traffic light”: a user study on security & privacy indicators in a secure email system committed to privacy by defaultStojkovski Borce, Lenzini Gabriele, Koenig VincentAbstract:Improving the usability and adoption of secure (i.e. end-to-end encrypted) email systems has been a notorious challenge for over two … Continued
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Public notice for Twitter and Reddit web scraping

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical Cybersecurity Public notice for Twitter and Reddit web scraping Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Public notice for Twitter and Reddit web scraping 1. About the research project As part of the research project Deceptive patterns online (Decepticon), we, researchers at the Interdisciplinary Center of Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) … Continued

I am Definitely Manipulated, Even When I am Aware of it. It s Ridiculous! — Dark Patterns from the End-User Perspective

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityI am Definitely Manipulated, Even When I am Aware of it. It s Ridiculous! — Dark Patterns from the End-User PerspectiveKerstin Bongard-Blanchy, Arianna Rossi, Salvador Rivas, Sophie Doublet, Vincent Koenig, Gabriele LenziniAbstract:Online services pervasively employ manipulative designs (i.e., dark patterns) to influence users to purchase goods and subscriptions, spend more … Continued

All in one stroke? Intervention Spaces for Dark Patterns

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityAll in one stroke? Intervention Spaces for Dark PatternsArianna Rossi, Kerstin Bongard-BlanchyAbstract:This position paper draws from the complexity of dark patterns to develop arguments for differentiated interventions. We propose a matrix of interventions with a measure axis (from user-directed to environmentdirected) and a scope axis (from general to specific). We … Continued

Enhancing acetic acid and 5 hydroxymethyl furfural tolerance of C. saccharoperbutylacetonicum through adaptive laboratory evolution

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityEnhancing acetic acid and 5 hydroxymethyl furfural tolerance of C. saccharoperbutylacetonicum through adaptive laboratory evolutionRafael F. Alves, Ana M. Zetty-Arenas, Huseyin Demirci, Oscar Dias, Isabel Rocha, Thiago O. Basso, Sindelia FreitasAbstract:In this study, adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) was applied to isolate four strains of Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum able to grow in … Continued