Andrew Hilts presented Open Effect research at the 2015 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium.
News
The latest news and announcements from Open Effect. Find out about publications, media reports, and software releases here.
CIRA funds OE to improve “Access My Info”
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has just announced Open Effect as one of the funding recipients of its Community Investment Program.
Privacy Commissioner’s Office to fund OE project
I’m excited to announce that Open Effect is among the recipients of The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s 2015-16 Contributions Program. The program seeks to fund independent Canadian privacy and security research. Over the next year, we will research the privacy and security of a range of wearable fitness trackers.
Ad industry HTTPS report featured in Business Insider, Motherboard
Our recent report on the state of the internet advertising industry’s adoption of the HTTPS secure data transmission protocol was featured in two media reports earlier this week
Open Source Comes to Campus
Andrew Hilts helped get several new open source software developers set up to start hacking on Open Effect’s TrackerSSL browser extension at the “Open Source Comes to Campus” event.