Our paper submitted to the Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2023) has been accepted for publication! In this study of 7,134 privacy policies, we identified significant differences between parent and subsidiary companies. We observed that as organizational complexity increased, policy similarity decreased. Congratulations, Mori-san!

Keika Mori, Yuta Takata, Daiki Ito, Masaki Kamizono, and Tatsuya Mori, “Impact Analysis of Organizational Structure of Group Companies on Privacy Policies,” Proceedings of he Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2023), November 2023

Our paper submitted to Journal of Information Processing has been accepted for publication! In this study, we employed bidirectional encoder representations from transformers to assess 1,298 privacy and 139 security policies of Japanese companies. Results indicated over 90% covered user rights and security well, but lacked in data retention details. Despite recent law changes, many policies remain insufficiently updated. Congratulations, Mori-san!

Keika Mori, Tatsuya Nagai, Yuta Takata, Masaki Kamizono, and Tatsuya Mori, “Analysis of Privacy Compliance by Classifying Policies Before and After the Japanese Law Revision,” Journal of Information Processing, vol. xx, no. xx., pp. xxxx-xxxxx (in press)

Our paper submitted to the IPSJ JIP has been published and is now available online. In this study, we analyzed 445 questions on a Q&A site, revealing non-experts’ main challenges with cyberattacks, authentication, and security, providing guidance for service improvements. Congratulations, Hasegawa-san! An earlier version of this paper was presented at SOUPS 2022.

Ayako A. HASEGAWA, Mitsuaki AKIYAMA, Naomi YAMASHITA, Daisuke INOUE, Tatsuya MORI, “Analysis of Non-Experts’ Security- and Privacy-Related Questions on a Q&A Site,” Journal IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems, Vol.E106-D, No.9, pp.1380–1396 [PDF]

Our paper submitted to EuroUSEC 2023 has been accepted for publication! This research proposes a new authentication method using hand gestures for VR devices, and we have conducted evaluations using the Meta Quest 2. Congratulations, Suzuki-san!

Mei Suzuki, Ryo Iijima, Kazuki Nomoto, Tetsushi Ohki), Tatsuya Mori, “PinchKey: A Natural and User-Friendly Approach to VR User Authentication,” Proceedings of the European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC), October 2023.