Eran Toch

OpenAI is in the big Latex business now x.com/OpenAI/statu...

מאוד מזכיר את ורסאי. המעבר לפרוורים כדרך לבדל את עצמך מההמונים.

This matters because cities often design and promote these systems for certain residents and not others. User-facing digital services tend to cluster in certain neighborhoods, while city-led infrastructure, such as bike-sharing, shows a more equitable distribution.

In a new paper, we show that where you live matters as much as who you are. Using survey data from four very different neighborhoods in Tel Aviv, we find that neighborhood context explains technology adoption far better than demographics alone. >>

Urban technologies, such as digital resident platforms like Tel Aviv’s DigiTel or parking apps, are now common in cities, yet adoption remains uneven despite major public investment. >>

Urban technology journal

We’re happy to announce that our paper, “Place Matters: Neighborhood Effects on Smart City Service Adoption,” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Urban Technology. >>

Quentin Tarantino on a bike lane in Tel Aviv -- and the city's response

“Let’s make this clear right now: unless you’ve made at least two masterpieces and changed the face of cinema forever — don’t walk on bike lanes.”

Well played, Facebook account of the City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa

So proud of the work we’ve done in CHI’s Privacy and Security subcommittee. It was really a privilege co-chairing this subcommittee with Florian and Emilee. Sadly, our lab’s papers weren’t so lucky.

Accepted Workshops - ACM CHI 2026 CHI workshops are organized independently by their organizers. Please see the websites of the individual events for detailed instructions on how to submit position papers and/or applications. Please n...

#CHI2026 program is shaping up: here's the first glimpse at the list of accepted workshops: chi2026.acm.org/workshops/ac...
This will be a really fun @chi.acm.org ! (Reminder that there's no added fee this year to attend workshops, they will happen throughout the conference!)

Academic Equinox: the moment when your Google Scholar citations from last year equal your citations this year.

So many options...

הם לא מעבירים מידע שם

קול קורא לכנס הפרטיות ה-13! בפקולטה למשפטים, אונ' ת"א
הכנס ייערך ביום א, 3.5.2026

Kosher phones

Thank you, Alon Zoizner, for inviting me to speak at the Communication Department seminar at the University of Haifa and for the opportunity to present, for the first time, the work by Adam Aviv, Oshrat Ayalon, and me on Kosher phone users’ perceptions of safety, privacy, and community.

Analysis | This new children’s book is a bedtime story for the AI age With “Privacy, Please!” a longtime cybersecurity expert wants preschoolers to start learning about digital privacy.

Congrats to @lorriecranor.bsky.social for writing a young children’s book about privacy. Great story in the WaPo about it and so happy it also mentions my book about privacy for older kids www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Like many of AI's hallucinations, it might be a good idea

In Academia, I'm my own boss. The only problem is that if I'm a terrible manager, I'm kind of stuck with myself.

Oh yes. We all joined Academia for the perks.

Final version! In Defense of Privacy-as-Control (Properly Understood), 65 Jurimetrics (2026 forthcoming)
I defend Privacy-as-Control, explain why its wrong to reduce it to notice & choice, and argue it serves as a common denominator for privacy's many theories
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

אפשר רק להעיר שמאוד מאוד קשה לעסוק במחשבה מורכבת וניואנסית אחרי ה-7 באוקטובר.

אי אפשר לא ללכת לסרט שנקרא חזירי עירנו

University of California faculty push back against Big Brother cybersecurity mandate School officials defend software as bulwark against ransomware, but professors fear potential surveillance of their devices

UC faculty and the @aaup.org demand the end of mandatory surveillance software use across the UC system. The future belongs to people, not to big brother!
www.science.org/content/arti...

קול קורא: מענקים למענים טכנולוגיים וציבוריים לפיתוח חסינות והתמודדות עם איומי דיסאינפורמציה והפצת תוכן כוזב ברשתות בישראל קול קורא למענקי פיתוח עבור ארגונים, יוזמות ופעילים המקדמים פתרונות ומענים טכנולוגיים וציבוריים לפיתוח חסינות והתמודדות עם איומי דיסאינפורמציה והפצת תוכן כוזב ברשתות בישראל…

Working in Israel on disinformation? (mitigating it, not spreading it). The Israeli Internet Association has a new grant (50K NIS) open to activists, initiatives, and orgs to develop new solutions. I'm on the board of the committee (w @avischarf.bsky.social etc)
www.isoc.org.il/disinformati...

The main message is that our students are being hired into roles that require interdisciplinarity capabilities right from the start. We teach more Machine Learning and statistics than anyone else on campus, and our students train models themselves: the best way to engage with the world of AI.

"לכולם יש משבר ג'וניורים, אבל בתחום הזה - זה חזק במיוחד" התואר בהנדסת תעשייה וניהול מושך צעירים רבים עם יכולות ארגוניות וניהוליות שחולמים להשתלב בענף ההייטק. אבל רבים מהבוגרים מרגישים שהמשרות שבעבר יועדו להם - כבר אינן ■ משרות ניהול פרויקטים מצומצמות והתחרו...

I was interviewed in Haaretz’s economics paper, TheMarker, about the job market in Industrial Engineering and Management jobs and the effects of AI on junior jobs in this market >> www.themarker.com/career/2025-...

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky - PubMed Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For the past decade, Twitter has been a primary home of scientists on social media. In recent years, new leadership at Twitter has made substantive changes th …

It doesn’t make much sense to move to Bluesky but then to not use it

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40637733/

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We will study the security and privacy concerns related to Haredi technologies, such as Kosher Phones. If you're interested in pursuing your Ph.D. or Master's degrees in this area, especially if you're a current or former member of Haredi communities, let us know!

screenshot from press release about NSF-BSF

We were awarded a very exciting new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) with colleagues Adam Aviv from The George Washington University and Oshrat Ayalon from the University of Haifa. >>