Publications

* denotes first authors

Journal Publications (Peer-Reviewed):

• Konrad Kollnig, Nigel Shadbolt (2022). TrackerControl: Transparency and Choice around App Tracking. Journal of Open Source Software, 7(75), 4270, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04270
• Tess Johnson*, Konrad Kollnig*, Pierre Dewitte (2022). Towards responsible, lawful and ethical data processing: patient data in the UK. Internet Policy Review, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.14763/2022.1.1638
• Konrad Kollnig, Anastasia Shuba, Reuben Binns, Max Van Kleek and Nigel Shadbolt (2022). Are iPhones Really Better for Privacy? A Comparative Study of iOS and Android. Proceedings of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. https://doi.org/10.2478/popets-2022-0033 — Acceptance rate 25.9%.
• Konrad Kollnig, Reuben Binns, Max Van Kleek, Ulrik Lyngs, Jun Zhao, Claudine Tinsman and Nigel Shadbolt (2021). Before and after GDPR: tracking in mobile apps. Internet Policy Review, 10(4). https://doi.org/10.14763/2021.4.1611
• Konrad Kollnig‚ Paolo Bientinesi and Edoardo Di Napoli (2021). Rational spectral filters with optimal convergence rate. Journal on Scientific Computing. https://doi.org/10.1137/20M1313933
• Yury Y. Kolotaev and Konrad Kollnig (2021). Political Influence of Online Platforms: YouTube’s Place in European Politics. Journal on International Relations of Saint Petersburg University. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu06.2021.206

Conference Publications (Peer-Reviewed):

• Konrad Kollnig, Anastasia Shuba, Max Van Kleek, Reuben Binns, Nigel Shadbolt (2022). Goodbye Tracking? Impact of iOS App Tracking Transparency and Privacy Labels. ACM FAccT 2022. https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03556 — Acceptance rate 25.1%.
• Siddhartha Datta, Konrad Kollnig, Nigel Shadbolt (2022). Mind-proofing Your Phone: Navigating the Digital Minefield with GreaseTerminator. ACM IUI 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3490099.3511152 — Acceptance rate 24.5%.
• Daniel Omeiza‚ Konrad Kollnig‚ Helena Webb‚ Marina Jirotka and Lars Kunze (2021). Why Not Explain? Effects of Explanations on Human Perceptions of Autonomous Driving. 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO 2021). https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO51874.2021.9542835
• Konrad Kollnig, Reuben Binns, Pierre Dewitte, Max Van Kleek, Ge Wang, Daniel Omeiza, Helena Webb and Nigel Shadbolt (2021). A Fait Accompli? An Empirical Study into the Absence of Consent to Third-Party Tracking in Android Apps. 7th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2021). https://www.usenix.org/system/files/soups2021-kollnig.pdf – Winner of the Student Paper Award, Privacy Papers for Policymakers 2022, Future for Privacy Forum — Acceptance rate 26.4%.
• Konrad Kollnig*, Siddhartha Datta* and Max Van Kleek (2021). I Want My App That Way: Reclaiming Sovereignty Over Personal Devices. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411763.3451632 — Acceptance rate 39.0%.

Technical Reports:

• Konrad Kollnig, Reuben Binns (2022). The Cost of the GDPR for Apps? Nearly Impossible to Study without Platform Data. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.09734.pdf
• https://www.sitra.fi/en/publications/tracking-digipower/ — 15 high profile politicians and journalists used TrackerControl (among other things)
• Konrad Kollnig, Reuben Binns, Nigel Shadbolt (2022). Response to public consultation by the UK Competition and Markets Authority. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6229ac9b8fa8f526cf29aa2f/Konrad_Kollnig__Reuben_Binns__Nigel_Shadbolt__Department_of_Computer_Science__University_of_Oxford.pdf
• Researchers from the Human Centred Computing Research Group and the Responsible Technology Institute (2021). Response to the public consultation on reforms to the UK’s data protection regime by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. https://kollnig.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Oxford_HCC_RTI_DCMS_Consultation_Response.pdf
• David Beavan, Fazl Barez, Mark Bell, John Fitzgerald, Eirini Goudarouli, Konrad Kollnig, Barbara McGillivray, Federico Nanni, Tariq Rashid, Sandro Sousa, Tom Storrar, Kirill Svetlov, Leontien Talboom, Aude Vuilliomenet, Pip Willcox (2021). Data Study Group Final Report: The National Archives. https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/publications/data-study-group-final-report-national-archives-uk
• Yury Kolotaev, Konrad Kollnig (2020). Perceptions of YouTube’s political influence. https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07745
• Konrad Kollnig (2019). Tracking in apps’ privacy policies. https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.07860.

Theses:

• Konrad Kollnig (2019). Mission Control: Data protection in apps under GDPR. MSc thesis. https://kollnig.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/msc-thesis.pdf
• Konrad Kollnig (2017). Constrained Optimisation of Rational Functions for Accelerating Subspace Iteration. BSc thesis. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.07771.pdf

Organised Workshops:

• Daniel Omeiza, Sule Anjomshoae, Konrad Kollnig, Oana-Maria Camburu, Kary Främling and Lars Kunze (2021). Towards Explainable and Trustworthy Autonomous Physical Systems. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3441338

Other writing:

• Konrad Kollnig (2022). Paper summary: “Before and after GDPR: tracking in mobile apps.” Blog of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute. https://montrealethics.ai/before-and-after-gdpr-tracking-in-mobile-apps/
• Konrad Kollnig (2020). Take control of your phone, before it takes control of you. Inspired Research (Twice-yearly magazine of the Department of the Computer Science, University of Oxford) http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/innovation/inspiredresearch/InspiredResearch-winter2020.pdf
• Konrad Kollnig, Yury Y. Kolotaev (2019). YouTube: a new age for political campaigning? Oxford Student (Student newspaper at the University of Oxford). https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2019/10/29/youtube-a-new-age-for-political-campaigning/

Funding:

• SIGCHI Development Fund Grant: $3750, 2021 – funding to run a CHI workshop, grant application led and run by my outstanding colleague Daniel Omeiza
• Hertford College Travel Grant: £300, 2020 – funding to attend the 4th European Privacy Law Scholars Conference in Amsterdam and Mozilla MozFest in London in December 2019