I have had death threats for my work on trans rights. I have been stalked. I have had people try and have me thrown out of my University. I am by no means alone, and lots of trans-inclusive academics have spoken publicly about the violence and harassment they face. But no mention of that here.
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Check out my blog post about our paper presented at IEEE S&P this week!
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π£Our paper: βSoK: A Privacy Framework for Security Research Using Social Media Dataβ just got accepted to #ieeesp2025!
Pre-print here: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
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Watch my recent talk at Cambridge, "Downvoted to Oblivion: Censorship in Online, LGBTQ+ Communities," here: www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/sec...
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Link to Ofcom's guidance: www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...
Link to our consultation: static1.squarespace.com/static/6502e...
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π€π»Ofcom and the UK government maintain and enforce their comittment to marginalised and vulnerable populations. 𧡠(2/3)
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Our work is impacting policy! π Ofcom recently cited a consultation I contributed to (as part of UCL's Gender and Tech Group). Particularly, I argue that trusted flaggers should be rooted in the communities being moderated and should be audited to prevent coercive behaviour. 𧡠(1/3)
01.03.2025 21:44 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
talks.cam : Downvoted to Oblivion: Censorship in Online, LGBTQ+ Communities
I will be at Cambridge on Tuesday 25 February talking about my research, "Downvoted to Oblivion: Censorship in Online, LGBTQ+ Communities."
Watch along, here:
talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...
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