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Roundtable on commercial surveillance

Organizer: David Choffnes (Northeastern University) Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2024 On October 9, 2024, David Choffnes (Northeastern University) organized a roundtable with leading researchers on commercial surveillance. The one-hour event started with brief introductions, followed by an engaging discussion about topics ranging from web tracking, algorithmic targeting, AI (particularly generative AI), fingerprinting, YouTube recommendations, custom/lookalike…Continue Reading Roundtable on commercial surveillance

Choffnes on Why It Feels Like Your Phone is Listening to You

Choffnes on Why It Feels Like Your Phone is Listening to You Feel like your phone is listening to your conversations? Turns out, it’s not that simple. David Choffnes (Northeastern) & collaborators analyzed 9,000 apps, checking for unauthorized mic and camera use. The verdict? No evidence of eavesdropping —but the data you do share daily…Continue Reading Choffnes on Why It Feels Like Your Phone is Listening to You

DiffAudit awarded Best Student Paper at IMC 2024

  • Publication date November 4, 2024
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DiffAudit awarded Best Student Paper at IMC 2024 Congratulations to Olivia Figueira and collaborators, Rahmadi Trimananda, Athina Markopoulou, and Scott Jordan (UCI), for being awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2024, which took place in Nov. 2024 in Madrid, Spain, for “DiffAudit: Auditing Privacy Practices of Online Services…Continue Reading DiffAudit awarded Best Student Paper at IMC 2024

Caveat (IoT) Emptor advances to CSAW 24 Finals

Congratulations to Gene Tsudik and ProperData alumni Sashidhar Jakkamsetti and PhD student Youngil Kim for advancing to the finals of the 2024 CSAW Applied Research Competition! Their ACM CCS 2023 paper, “Caveat (IoT) Emptor: Towards Transparency of IoT Device Presence” is one of 15 papers selected as finalist from a pool of 194 submissions. The…Continue Reading Caveat (IoT) Emptor advances to CSAW 24 Finals

Smart Speaker work awarded 2024 PETS Caspar Bowden Award Runner Up

  • Publication date July 18, 2024
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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…Continue Reading Smart Speaker work awarded 2024 PETS Caspar Bowden Award Runner Up