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Dr. Henry Hosseini

Current affiliations

  • Department of Information Systems (WI)
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0000-0002-9691-0329

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Cybersecurity
  • Privacy
  • Fake News & AI
  • Digital Medium-Sized Cities

Academic Education

10/2010 - 11/2024Ruhr University Bochum, IT Security, B.Sc.
04/2019 - 07/2024University of Münster, Information Systems, Dr. rer. pol., Dissertation: "Towards Automated Multilingual Privacy Policy Analysis"
11/2014 - 10/2018Ruhr University Bochum, IT Security, M.Sc.
09/2003 - 05/2008Islamic Azad University, Mashhad (Iran), Software Engineering, B.Sc.

Functions and Memberships

since 10/2023Deputy, Doctoral Committee, School of Business & Economics, University of Münster
since 10/2022Member, Quality Assurance Board for Doctoral Education, School of Business & Economics, University of Münster
10/2022 - 09/2023Member, Doctoral Committee, School of Business & Economics, University of Münster

Publications

Privacy Policies in Medium-Sized European Town Administrations: A Comparative Analysis of English and German-Speaking Countries
Hosseini, Henry (2025)
In: Di Pietro, Roberto; Renaud, Karen; Mori, Paolo (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP), 60-71. Portugal: SciTePress. doi:10.5220/0013171800003899
Research article in edited proceedings (conference) | Peer reviewed | Published
Privacy from 5 PM to 6 AM: Tracking and Transparency Mechanisms in the HbbTV Ecosystem
Böttger, Christian; Hosseini, Henry; Utz, Christine; Demir, Nurullah; Hörnemann, Jan; Wressnegger, Christian; Hupperich, Thomas; Pohlmann, Norbert; Große-Kampmann, Matteo; Urban, Tobias (2025)
In: Cinque, Marcello; Cotroneo, Domenico; De Simone; Luigi; Eckhart, Matthias; P. C. Lee, Patrick; Saman Zonouz (eds.), Proceedings of the 2025 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 1-15. Naples, Italy: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press. doi:10.1109/DSN64029.2025.00017
Research article in edited proceedings (conference) | Peer reviewed | Published
HotspotCheck: Investigating Privacy Risks and Practices of Public Wi-Fi Hotspots with the Assistance of LLMs
Hosseini, Henry; Böttger, Christian (2025)
In: Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 14-19 July 2025, Washington, DC, United States. 
Poster | Peer reviewed | Published
Grand Challenges for Research on Privacy Documents (Dagstuhl Seminar 25021): Datasets, Automation, and Analysis Methods
Story, Peter; Ghanavati, Sepideh; Hosseini, Henry; Mitrovic Jelena; Samples, Tim; Wagner, Isabel; Zhao, Tianyang (2025)
In: Dagstuhl Reports, 15(1), 11-17. doi:10.4230/DagRep.15.1.1
Research article (journal) | Published
A Bilingual Longitudinal Analysis of Privacy Policies Measuring the Impacts of the GDPR and the CCPA/CPRA
Hosseini, Henry; Utz, Christine; Degeling, Martin; Hupperich, Thomas (2024)
In: Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2024(2), 434-463. doi:10.56553/popets-2024-0058
Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published
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Projects

FOR 5393: The future smart town
Duration: 01/01/2023 - 31/12/2026 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Research Unit
Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster
FOR 5393 - Coordination Funds
Duration: 01/01/2023 - 31/12/2026 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Research Unit
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster