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Kids, parents alike worried about privacy with internet-connected toys
Hello Barbie, CogniToys Dino and other toys connected to the internet can joke around with children and respond in surprising detail to questions posed by their young users. The toys record the voices...
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UW professor Franziska Roesner named one of world’s top innovators under 35
MIT Technology Review has named University of Washington professor Franziska Roesner one of 35 “Innovators Under 35” for 2017. Roesner is a faculty member in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer...
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For $1000, anyone can purchase online ads to track your location and app use
New University of Washington research finds that for a budget of roughly $1000, it is possible for someone to track your location and app use by purchasing and targeting mobile ads. The team aims to...
View ArticleInformation School to welcome high school students March 19 for ‘MisInfo...
What is misinformation, and how — and why — does it spread? The University of Washington Information School is taking a leading role in helping people better navigate this era of increasing online...
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New tools to minimize risks in shared, augmented-reality environments
For now, augmented reality remains mostly a solo activity, but soon people might be using the technology in groups for collaborating on work or creative projects. A few summers ago throngs of people...
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How people investigate — or don’t — fake news on Twitter and Facebook
UW researchers studied how people investigated potentially suspicious posts on their own Facebook and Twitter feeds. Social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, provide people with a lot of...
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Q&A: UW researchers clicked ads on 200 news sites to track misinformation
Editor’s note: All images of ads in this story are screenshots and are intended to help illustrate points in the text. UW researchers found that both mainstream and misinformation news sites displayed...
View ArticleSoundbites: UW researchers examine deceptive ads on news websites
In this video: Franziska Roesner, associate professor in the Allen School Eric Zeng, graduate research assistant in the Allen School Journalists: download soundbites here With the election season...
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Three UW teams awarded NSF Convergence Accelerator grants for misinformation,...
Three separate University of Washington research teams have been awarded $750,000 each by the National Science Foundation to advance studies in misinformation and the ocean economy. The NSF pledged...
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Political ads during the 2020 presidential election cycle collected personal...
UW researchers found that political ads during the 2020 election season used multiple concerning tactics, including posing as a poll to collect people’s personal information or having headlines that...
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