Kicking off our workshop on Policy-Relevant Privacy Reseach (PR2), colocated with @PET_Symposium
2025 in DC: https://pr2.technologypolicyworkshop.org

With Athina Markopoulou and Zubair Shafiq

Hello! My lab is running a compensated research study and crowdsourcing participants.

The purpose of this research is to investigate recently produced cars that may share personally identifying information. These “connected cars” are recently produced cars that include always-on internet connections, collect and transmit data about the vehicle and the driver, and incorporate companion smartphone apps.

If you decide to take part in this study, we will ask you to request your personal information from your vehicle manufacturer, wait for the manufacturer to provide you with your information, review the data to confirm that you are comfortable sharing the data with the research team, and then share the provided data from the vehicle manufacturer with the research team.

Participants will be compensated. This study was reviewed by Northeastern University’s Institutional Review Board as IRB#24-06-40. Participants need to be 18 or older, live in the European Union or a U.S. state that allows customers to access data that businesses hold on them (currently California, Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Virginia), and lease/own a car that is 2018 or newer.

Eligibility screening and online consent form: https://neu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eeT1VWdjtYXPNhI