Media

I’m always happy to speak to the media about my research and issues related to consumer privacy and data ethics, as well as topics of online harassment and social media use more broadly. Please contact me directly here.

I’ve included a selection of news articles where I provided comments below:

  • Guo, E. (2023, January 10). Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook. MIT Technology Review. [link]
  • Guo, E. (2022, December 19). A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? MIT Technology Review. [link]
  • Maher, S. (2022, February 8). What happened to those COVID exposure apps? NPR | Marketplace. [link]
  • Howley, D. (2021, March 17). Why America will never be safe from cyberattacks. Yahoo! Finance. [link]
  • Paunil, J. (2021, February 10). The ‘Friday’ music video went viral 10 years ago. Rebecca Black has spent the last decade recovering. The Lily/Washington Post. [link]
  • Anderson, B., & O’Brien, M. (2020, December 6). Despite promise, few in US adopting COVID-19 exposure apps. Associated Press (AP). [link]
  • Hou, C-Y. (2020, April 3). Data Thieves Are Targeting Dead People’s Social Media Accounts. OneZero. [link]
  • Ellis, E.G. (2020, March 4). Greta Thunberg’s Online Attackers Reveal a Grim Pattern. WIRED. [link]
  • Kim, M. (2019, October 12). We asked the experts: Do Alexa’s new privacy tools go far enough? The Ambient. [link]
  • Walsh, J. D. (2019, August 27). Ten years on, Foursquare is now checking in to you. Even the company is still trying to figure out whether that’s “cool or creepy.” New York Magazine. [link]
  • Jones, N. (2019, February 21). Maryland bill seeks to prohibit using DNA databases to solve crime. Associated Press. [link]
  • Handley, P., & Lever, R. (2018, April 12). #ZuckerBowl without a clear winner as Facebook hearings end. Agence France-Presse (AFP). [link]
  • Contrera, J. (2016, February 8). Swiping for BFFs: Dating-style apps are breaking into the friendship market. Washington Post. [link]
  • Urist, J. (February 4, 2015).  How real are Facebook friendships? The Atlantic. [link]
  • Bond, M. (May 24, 2014). Friends in high-tech places. New Scientist, 2970(1192), 40-43. [link]