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