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...

Come work with me! I'm hiring a data scientist to join me at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social @shorensteinctr.bsky.social careers.harvard.edu/job/senior-d...

🌟 Want to help shape #MADWeb 2026? Nominate yourself for the Program Committee! Deadline: Oct 31, 2025 ⏰ Consider applying even if you don't have extensive reviewing experience! forms.gle/UovLWS78aa3t...

Privacy Sandbox is dead. privacysandbox.com/news/update-...

The source they link to says: "Springer had argued, among other things, that the DOM node tree generated by the browser from the HTML code when rendering a website and the CSS structures are forms of expression of the user's own programming and are therefore protected by copyright." 2/2

@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...

Thank you all for attending PETS 2025! Special shoutout to General Chair @adamaviv.bsky.social for hosting, to Program Chairs @zubair-shafiq.bsky.social and @ikben-robjansen.bsky.social , and stellar volunteers for making it a success. See you next time ✨ 📅 Submit to PETS 2026 Issue 2: Aug 31, 2025

@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...

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

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

🚨 The @pet-symposium.bsky.social 2025 program is live! petsymposium.org/2025/program... Packed with 3 exciting keynotes, 150+ cutting-edge privacy papers, and a great lineup of co-located workshops. The early registration deadline is approaching. Join us in Washington DC or online.

I just heard that a cryptography professor at Indiana University had his house raided and was fired. Don’t know much more. www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

With a record number of submissions, amazing discussions, and a fantastic community, #MADWeb 2025 was truly special. Huge thanks to all participants, speakers, PC members, and our hosts at @internetsociety.bsky.social for making it happen! Safe travels—see you next year! ✈️ Limin, Marco, Yinzhi

Interview on RNE in the program "A hombro de gigantes" about our ACR study on Smart TVs.

State of privacy on the web almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/priv...

State of cookies on the web almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/cook...

"OpenAI is discussing plans to introduce advertising to its artificial intelligence products, as it restructures as a for-profit company". www.ft.com/content/9350...

I would argue Global Privacy Control is the best example of a valuable user feature which will get implemented if the Department of Justice succeeds in Court requiring Google divest its Chrome browser. cacm.acm.org/opinion/noti...

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Third Parties, by @[email protected] and @[email protected] (@[email protected]):

The work was led by the extremely bright and impressive Shaoor Munir. He's got a unique ability to write about and study legal topics, with a computer science angle. Do check out his profile and other work! @shaoormunir.bsky.social

Thanks for listening. The research wouldn't have been possible without the hard work of my co-authors. The full paper can be found here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... The slides here: docs.google.com/presentation... A general-audience blog article here: www.promarket.org/2024/08/08/c... 9/9

The US gov wants Google to sell Chrome to stop Google' monopoly in online search. But don't we all love Chrome? ❤️ Why then sell it ? Let me explain, having published the first in-depth research article about this with @zubair-shafiq.bsky.social and others, and recently given a talk about this. 🧵1/9

🎙️ For those familiar w/ @httparchive.org's WEB ALMANAC, we're going to be live! Dec 10th with some of the authors in the 1st of a series of streams covering the 2024 edition. 17M sites, 83TB of data. Join us! 📆 Tuesday Dec 10th, 13h EST 🔗 RSVP here: bit.ly/web-almanac-2024 Spare a RT? ⚡️

I contributed to the 2024 Web Alamnac Chapter on Third Parties. Check it out almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/thir...