Congratulations to Umar Iqbal and the rest of the team (Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami, Rahmadi Trimananda, Hao Cui, Alexander Gamero-Garrido, Daniel J. Dubois, David Choffnes, Athina Markopoulou, Franziska Roesner, and Zubair Shafiq) for receiving the Runner Up to the Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies at the 2024 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2024) for their work auditing smart speakers! The award is presented annually to researchers who have made an outstanding contribution to the theory, design, implementation, or deployment of privacy enhancing technologies.
Their paper, “Tracking, Profiling, and Ad Targeting in the Alexa Echo Smart Speaker Ecosystem”, first appeared at IMC 2023 and won the best paper award.
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