Excited to share that my research (w/ @zubair-shafiq.bsky.social, @kollnig.net, Nurullah) on "Understanding Data Collection, Brokerage, and Spam in the Lead Marketing Ecosystem" has been accepted for presentation at the 3rd FTC Conference on Marketing and Public Policy 2026 in Washington D.C.

Generative AI, by @[email protected] and @yash-vekaria.bsky.social and others (@httparchive.org): https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/generative-ai #webalmanac #studies #research #metrics #ai

My research (w/ @zubair-shafiq.bsky.social) on Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) was cited in complaints filed today by Attorney General Ken Paxton against 5 major smart TV brands—LG, Samsung, Sony, TCL, and Hisense—alleged for spying on Texans via ACR. texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/release...

Honored to have received "Distinguished Reviewer Award" at USENIX Security Symposium 2025 🎉 www.usenix.org/sites/defaul...

@yash-vekaria.bsky.social is presenting his research "Big Help or Big Brother?" at the 2025 USENIX Security Symposium this week. The paper shows tracking and profiling risks in GenAI browser assistants. #USENIXSecurity engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/big-hel...

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

@yash-vekaria.bsky.social's research on ACR-tracking by Smart TVs featured in @nytimes.com @nytwirecutter.bsky.social. Checkout the article: nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

[email protected] describing privacy risks of ACR-based smart TV tracking www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeq2...

We systematize developments in web tracking and identify open problems in the field in our new work: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14057