Students take top prizes at first privacy hackathon
A second-year Waterloo Engineering student shared the top prize at a recent hackathon focused on the creation of technology to protect privacy.
Lena Nguyen of systems design engineering teamed up with Anne Chung, a second-year computer science student at the University of Waterloo, to develop software that puts browsers on kids mode by disabling web page fields asking for sensitive information such as addresses and credit card numbers.