Primal Wijesekera

Researcher @UCBerkeley and @ICSIatBerkeley

[Primal Wijesekera @primalw]

https://t.co/AkYXAaYDY9

[Primal Wijesekera @primalw]

Why does DeepSeek think OpenAI is it's developer? is this part of the model distillation?

Prompt: government filter your data?

Answer visible to the generic user: "Sorry, that's beyond my current scope. Let...s talk about something else."
#deepseek #openai #llm
#AIRace

[Primal Wijesekera @primalw]

BUT The actual answer generated by deepseek includes following: -

"My responses are shaped by ** guidelines and safety protocols ** programmed by my developers (OpenAI) not by direct real-time government control. "

#deepseek #openai #llm #AIRace #model_distillation

[Primal Wijesekera @primalw]

@aselawaid your creds + your location as well -- unencrypted.

[Asela Waidyalankara @aselawaid]

My colleague Dr. Primal who is a US based expert on Data Privacy at UC Berkeley, just shared this update on the eTraffic App on LinkedIn ⬇️

[Primal Wijesekera @primalw]

Did you know that some of the popular VSCode extensions, have serious security vulnerabilities, and worse, some of them are actively trying to degrade the security posture of the host?

#vulnerability #developerSecurity #supplychainattacks #permissionmodels #lackofsandbox

[Asela Waidyalankara @aselawaid]

My colleague and Privacy Expert Primal Wijesekara analyzed 41 popular health apps and websites in Sri Lanka as a precursor to understanding the compliance process that they need to adopt in the coming months to meet the PDPA deadline in March 2025.

There findings are quite interesting, 78% of analyzed systems have third-party trackers receiving sensitive health information like the physician you are meeting, potential medical conditions/specialties one searched within these systems, and finally, certain parts of the apps/websites focusing on specific medical conditions such as infertility, diabetes, etc.

Article: https://t.co/fuEGKrbpZr

[Primal Wijesekera @primalw]

Roundtable Discussion on Privacy Regulations: Privacy Beyond Regulations

Stakeholder engagement for better privacy protection and ecosystem in Sri Lanka.

https://t.co/iJxeGEToFW

#compliance #privacy #regulations #PDPASriLanka #DPASriLanka #stakeholderengagement

[Primal Wijesekera @primalw]

From Permission Usage to Compliance Analysis: Lessons learned Analyzing Android Apps for over decade for Privacy and Malicious Behavior

https://t.co/Cu6GN4hqSg

#HIPAA #COPPA #CCPA #AndroidAppAnalysis #DynamicAnalysis #PrivacyAssessment

[Primal Wijesekera @primalw]

I delivered a talk to an audience of 31 US military flag officers (Generals and Admirals) and DOD SES personnel.

It was to get the senior leadership familiar with the potential security implications of ML-generated code.

#usmilitary #aithreats #futurereadiness

[Joe Calandrino @inplaintext]

The submission deadline for the 8th Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro '24) is today (Jan. 17)! Still time to polish off your short research paper or one-page research proposal:
https://t.co/xvGXAi9PCv

Looking forward to this year's excellent submissions!

[Primal Wijesekera @primalw]

https://t.co/R1RKTHRaoo really fun system/storage talk by @andywarfield ... really miss those UBC NSS days. :)

[Athan Koutsiouroumbas @Athan_K]

🚨🚨"Our thesis is that a primary cause of the rise in mental disorders is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults." 🚨🚨(1/2)

[Primal Wijesekera @primalw]

Wait for the full paper on the technical analysis and for the video of the panel discussion.

[Primal Wijesekera @primalw]

At USENIX PEPR'23, we successfully concluded a panel discussion on the current state of mobile health privacy and its challenges.

#USENIX #PEPR #privacy #healthprivacy #compliance #HIPAA #FTC #telehealth #health #healthbreachnotification #FTCAct

[Primal Wijesekera @primalw]

I should also thank Liam, Julia, Mitra, Anniyat, and Mobin, who are also part of this amazing team. NSF is very generously supporting this monumental effort.