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Allan Friedman is a PhD candidate in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. His research applies economic, behavioral and complex systems theory to information dynamics research questions. Specifically, Allan looks at security, privacy and trust from an end-user perspective, as well as examining policy questions in these areas. He has a bachelors degree in Computer Science from Swarthmore College, and has worked for the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington and HP's Information Dynamics Lab.

Allan Friedman and L Jean Camp, “Security in Peer to Peer Systems”, The Handbook of Information Security ed. Hossein Bidgoli, John Wiley & Sons (Hoboken, New Jersey) 2005.

Luc Wathieu and Allan Friedman “Intelliseek” Harvard Business School Case N9-505-061 2005

Allan Friedman, Roshan Baliga, Deb Dasgupta, Anna Dreyer, “Understanding the broadcast flag: a threat analysis model” Telecommunications Policy 28 (2004)

Luc Wathieu and Allan Friedman “An empirical approach to understanding privacy valuation” Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2005), Cambridge MA June 2005

David Lazer and Allan Friedman “Exploration and Exploitation in Networks” Poster Presentation at the National Conference on Digital Government Research, Atlanta GA May 2005

“Incentives, Markets and Information Security” Panel Chair and Presenter. Financial Cryptography (FC05), Dominica February 2005

Invited Panel Participant, “Privacy and Rights Management” International Conference on Electronic Commerce, Pittsburgh PA, October 2003. [slides]

Allan Friedman, Roshan Baliga, Deb Dasgupta, Anna Dreyer, “Underlying Motivations in the Broadcast Flag Debate” Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Washington DC, September 2003.

L Jean Camp & Allan Friedman, “Peer to Peer Security” Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Washington DC, September 2003.

Allan Friedman & L. Jean Camp, "Manifest Security", Second Workshop on Economics and Information Security College Park, MA. May 2003.

“(Inter)national IDs” Panel Moderator, Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop: Dresden, Germany, March 2003

Allan Friedman (Primary researcher) “Online Banking Privacy” Center for Democracy and Technology, 2001.