The third CyberMi2 Research Day (in-person only) will take place at Edinburgh Futures Institute, UK. Contact Dr Maryam Mehrnezhad (maryam.mehrnezhad@rhul.ac.uk) and Dr Ben Collier (Ben.Collier@ed.ac.uk) for registering. 

See CyberMi2 2023, and CyberMi2 2024 for the style of this event. 

This is an invitation-only event where we present our work on security and privacy (SP) and minority and minoritized users. The theme of this year is Online Safety. We have participants from academia, industry, government, and the regulatory sectors. If you would like to attend, email us.

9:30-10 am: Welcome Networking with Tea/Coffee 

Session 1 (10-11 am)

• Welcome (10 min)(Ben Collier, Maryam Mehrnezhad)(Edinburgh and RHUL) 

1. A Cyber-Resilient Resistance? Exploring how activist communities conceptualise, organise, and resist contemporary digital surveillance (15 min)(Iga Gumulinska, Edinburgh Napier University)

2. Addressing Online Hate with Context-aware AI  (15 min)(Maryam Mehrnezhad, RHUL)

3. Invisible Vulnerabilities: Protecting Privacy and Security for Screen Reader Users  (15 min)(James Clarke, Surrey)

11-11:30 am: Tea/Coffee Break

Session 2 (11:30 am-12:45 pm)

4. Privacy Analysis of Smart Security Cameras on Android and iOS Platforms (15 min)(Scott Harper, Surrey)

5. Patchwork profiles: constructions of race, religion, and other protected characteristics in domestic state influence campaigns, (15 min)(Ben Collier, Edinburgh)

6. Cybersecurity, Safety, and Privacy in Menopause Technologies (15 min)(Taylor Robinson and Rebecca Jones, RHUL)

7. IoT, Domestic Violence, and Under-considered users (15 mins) (Kieron Ivy Turk, Cambridge)

12:45-2 pm: Lunch 

Session 3 (2-3 pm)

8. Design Problems of Universal Credit and Working Single Mothers (15 mins) (Morgan Currie and Lena Podoletz, Edinburgh)

9. Downvoted to Oblivion: Censorship in Online, LGBTQ+ Communities (15 min) (Kyle Beadle, UCL)

10. Security and Privacy Risks in Assistive IoT for the Visually Impaired (15 min)(Stephen Cook, RHUL)

11. Numbered and Known: How AirDrop Vulnerabilities Expose At-Risk Users (15 min) (Christian Weinert, RHUL)

3-3:30 pm: Tea/Coffee Break

Session 4 (3:30-4:30 pm) 

• Round-Table Discussion

  • Topic 1: Image-Based Sexual Abuse (Chair: Sophie Hawkes)

  • Topic 2: Gender and Cyber Safety (Chair: Viana Zhang and Maryam Mehrnezhad)

  • Topic 3: Intersectionality and Online Harm (Chair: Ben Collier)

• Closing Remarks