Two RTG Papers accepted to PETS 2023 (Core-Rank: A)
2023/05/09

Two RTG papers were accepted at the 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), a forum which brings together privacy experts from around the world to discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. PETS will take place from July 10–15, 2023 in Lausanne, Switzerland and Online.
Paper 1 is an interdisciplinary paper and a follow-up study to the previous notification-study. The researchers analyzed feedback from website owners on being notified of an existing privacy issue and showed how they deal with it.
How Website Owners Face Privacy Issues: Thematic Analysis of Responses from a Covert Notification Study Reveals Diverse Circumstances and Challenges
- (TU Darmstadt, Psychology, RTG PhD), Alina Stöver
- (TU Darmstadt, Psychology, RTG Associate), Nina Gerber
- (University Bamberg), Henning Pridöhl
- (Iterec, former Computer Science, former RTG PhD), Max Maass
- (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Law, RTG Associate), Sebastian Bretthauer
- (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Law, RTG PI), Indra Spiecker
- (TU Darmstadt, Computer Science, RTG PI), Matthias Hollick
- (University Bamberg) Dominik Herrmann
In Paper 2 they looked at how users imagine a privacy assistant or AlterEgo from a psychological perspective.
Investigating how users imagine their Personal Privacy Assistant
- (TU Darmstadt, Psychology, RTG PhD), Alina Stöver
- Sara Hahn (TU Darmstadt, Psychology, future RTG PhD)
- Felix Kretschmer (TU Darmstadt, Psychology),
- (TU Darmstadt, Psychology, RTG Associate) Nina Gerber
