Welcome! Fred Stutzman is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College, working with Professor Alessandro Acqusiti. Additionally, he is the founder of Eighty Percent Solutions, which distributes the productivity software Freedom and Anti-Social, and co-founder of ClaimID.com, the social web identity management service.

  • Email: fstutzman@cmu.edu
  • Office: HBH 2105C, H. John Heinz III College
  • Phone: 415-968-9172

Recent Publications
  • Hartzog, W. and Stutzman, F. (To appear). The Case for Online Obscurity. California Law Review 101(1).   
  • Stutzman, F., Vitak, J., Ellison, N., Gray, R., and Lampe, C. (2012). Privacy in Interaction: Exploring Disclosure and Social Capital in Facebook. Accepted to 2012 International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM '12). Dublin, IE.  
  • Stutzman, F. and Hartzog, W. (2012). Obscurity by Design: An Approach to Building Privacy into Social Media. In CSCW '12 Workshop on Reconciling Privacy with Social Media. Seattle, WA.  
  • Stutzman, F. and Hartzog, W. (2012). Boundary Regulation in Social Media. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '12). Seattle, WA. 769--778  
  • Hartzog, W. and Stutzman, F. (2011). The Case for Online Obscurity. In Wolf, C. and Polonetsky, J. (Eds.) Privacy Papers for Policy Makers. Future of Privacy Forum, Washington, DC.   
  • Stutzman, F. (2011). Networked Information Behavior in Life Transition. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC.   
  • Hartzog, W. and Stutzman, F. (2011). The Case for Online Obscurity. In Privacy Law Scholars Conference 2011 (PLSC '11). Berkeley, CA. [International Association of Privacy Professionals/Future of Privacy Forum Best Paper Award]   
  • Lampinen, A., Stutzman, F. and Bylund, M. (2011). Privacy for a Networked World: Bridging Theory and Design.In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI '11). Vancouver, BC.   
  • Yoder, C. and Stutzman, F. (2011). Identifying Social Capital in the Facebook Interface. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, BC. 585--588.   
  • Stutzman, F., Capra R., and Thompson, J. (2011). Factors Mediating Disclosure in Social Network Sites. Computers in Human Behavior 27(1), 598--598   
  • Stutzman, F. (2011). Productivity in the Age of Social Media. In Scholz, T. (Ed.) The Digital Media Pedagogy Reader. Institute for Distributed Creativity, Comment Press, New York, NY.   Link


News
  • April 2012: Interviewed in New Scientist, New York Times, Ars Technica, and covered by Forbes.
  • March 2012: "The Case for Online Obscurity" to be published in California Law Review.
  • February 2012: Full paper accepted to ICWSM '12.
  • February 2012: "Online Obscurity" receives Top Faculty Paper in the Law & Policy Division of AEJMC Southeast Colloquium.
  • January 2012: Obscurity-by-design accepted to PLSC '12.
  • Program committees: WWW '12, ICWSM '12, CHI '12 WIP, CSCW '12 privacy workshop.
  • December 2011: Workshop paper accepted to CSCW '12.
  • October 2011: Paper accepted to CSCW '12.
  • September 2011: "The Case for Online Obscurity" included in Future of Privacy Forum Privacy Papers for Policy Makers.
  • September 2011: Hartzog and Stutzman present at IAPP Privacy Academy.
  • August 2011: Acquisti, Gross, Stutzman face recognition study in the Economist, WSJ, Fox News, etc.
  • July 2011: My company is hiring.
  • June 2011: John "Jack" Anderson Stutzman, 6lb 11oz!
  • June 2011: Visitor, Microsoft Research New England.
  • June 2011: Woody Hartzog and I received the IAPP/FPF Award for our paper at PLSC 2011.
  • May 2011: Presented a note and co-organized the privacy workshop at CHI 2011.
  • May 2011: Graduated!
  • January 2011: New article published in Computers in Human Behavior.