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Best Paper Award for ATHENE researchers at the IEEE VizSec

03/11/2020

ATHENE researchers of the Fraunhofer IGD were awarded the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) for their publication "A Visualization Interface to Improve the Transparency of Collected Personal Data on the Internet". In their paper, the researchers* deal with the problem that Internet users lose track of the data they disclose and store due to the multitude of online services. The prototype they developed, TransparencyVis, supports users in gaining better control over their own data. Via https://transparency-vis.vx.igd.fraunhofer.de/, users can upload exports from Facebook, Google, Instagram and Twitter simultaneously or individually and explore them interactively.

Information on the accepted paper:
A Visualization Interface to Improve the Transparency of Collected Personal Data on the Internet

Authors: Marija Schufrin, Steven Lamarr Reynolds, Arjan Kuijper, Jörn Kohlhammer
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Presentation of the paper at VizSec: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbJzQvOD62E&feature=youtu.be

At VizSec, researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and public authorities exchange views on security and data protection related topics, with a particular focus on new visualisation and analysis techniques.
 VizSec 2020 took pülace on Oktober 28, 2020 in conjunction with IEEE VIS.

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