Yoshi Kohno
@yoshikohno.bsky.social
Computer security & privacy research, Georgetown University, he/him
A great @technologyreview.com article quoting from @rachelhong.bsky.social and @willie-agnew.bsky.social!
Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in one of the biggest open-source AI training sets, new research has found.
A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models.
www.technologyreview.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
A great @technologyreview.com article quoting from @rachelhong.bsky.social and @willie-agnew.bsky.social!
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I am so damn excited to share my new book, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach. Full of stories and priced at $40, this book explains why law finds technology so difficult to regulate, and what to do about it. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
June 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I am so damn excited to share my new book, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach. Full of stories and priced at $40, this book explains why law finds technology so difficult to regulate, and what to do about it. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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New paper alert! In a collaboration between computer scientists and legal scholars, we find a significant amount of PII in a common AI training dataset and conduct a legal analysis showing that these issues put web-scale datasets in tension with existing privacy law. [🧵1/N] arxiv.org/abs/2506.17185
A Common Pool of Privacy Problems: Legal and Technical Lessons from a Large-Scale Web-Scraped Machine Learning Dataset
We investigate the contents of web-scraped data for training AI systems, at sizes where human dataset curators and compilers no longer manually annotate every sample. Building off of prior privacy con...
arxiv.org
June 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
New paper alert! In a collaboration between computer scientists and legal scholars, we find a significant amount of PII in a common AI training dataset and conduct a legal analysis showing that these issues put web-scale datasets in tension with existing privacy law. [🧵1/N] arxiv.org/abs/2506.17185
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Imagine a world where:
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That's the future we're fighting for at EFF. Stand with us for our 35th anniversary!
💻 Your device is truly yours
📱 You speak freely without fear
🔐 Your privacy is protected
That's the future we're fighting for at EFF. Stand with us for our 35th anniversary!
35 Years for Privacy, Free Speech, and a Brighter Future
Through July 10, new monthly or annual Sustaining Donors get an EFF35 Challenge Coin! With your help, EFF is here to stay.
eff.org
June 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Imagine a world where:
💻 Your device is truly yours
📱 You speak freely without fear
🔐 Your privacy is protected
That's the future we're fighting for at EFF. Stand with us for our 35th anniversary!
💻 Your device is truly yours
📱 You speak freely without fear
🔐 Your privacy is protected
That's the future we're fighting for at EFF. Stand with us for our 35th anniversary!
This is @kaimingcheng.bsky.social at his great talk on "User Comprehension and Comfort with Eye-Tracking and Hand-Tracking Permissions in Augmented Reality" at USEC earlier this week. Nice work!! 🎉 Check out the paper at www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/u....
February 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This is @kaimingcheng.bsky.social at his great talk on "User Comprehension and Comfort with Eye-Tracking and Hand-Tracking Permissions in Augmented Reality" at USEC earlier this week. Nice work!! 🎉 Check out the paper at www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/u....
Congrats to soon-to-be-Dr Rachel McAmis on passing the UW @uwcse.bsky.social General Exam and advancing to candidacy. Her research, with the UW Security & Privacy Research Lab and the @techpolicylab.bsky.social, is focused on satellites and computer security
February 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Congrats to soon-to-be-Dr Rachel McAmis on passing the UW @uwcse.bsky.social General Exam and advancing to candidacy. Her research, with the UW Security & Privacy Research Lab and the @techpolicylab.bsky.social, is focused on satellites and computer security
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UW’s @techpolicylab.bsky.social and I invite applications for a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher position in "AI Alignment with Ethical Principles" focusing on language technologies, societal impact, and tech policy.
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Priority review deadline: 3/28/2025
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Priority review deadline: 3/28/2025
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February 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
UW’s @techpolicylab.bsky.social and I invite applications for a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher position in "AI Alignment with Ethical Principles" focusing on language technologies, societal impact, and tech policy.
Kindly share!
apply.interfolio.com/162834
Priority review deadline: 3/28/2025
Kindly share!
apply.interfolio.com/162834
Priority review deadline: 3/28/2025
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We are excited to announce that IsolateGPT will appear at NDSS 25. To foster follow-up research, we release our code (github.com/llm-platform...). Also as @llamaindex.bsky.social Pack (llamahub.ai/l/llama-pack...). Lead by Yuhao Wu w/ @franziroesner.bsky.social @yoshikohno.bsky.social & Ning Zhang
GitHub - llm-platform-security/SecGPT: An Execution Isolation Architecture for LLM-Based Agentic Systems
An Execution Isolation Architecture for LLM-Based Agentic Systems - llm-platform-security/SecGPT
github.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
We are excited to announce that IsolateGPT will appear at NDSS 25. To foster follow-up research, we release our code (github.com/llm-platform...). Also as @llamaindex.bsky.social Pack (llamahub.ai/l/llama-pack...). Lead by Yuhao Wu w/ @franziroesner.bsky.social @yoshikohno.bsky.social & Ning Zhang