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ProperData: Year 2 in Review
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OECD cites multiple Frontier work in Dark Commercial Patterns report
The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) recently published a report on “Dark Commerical Patterns” in which multiple Frontier works were cited. We are happy to see the lasting impact that the dark patterns work lead by NEU graduate student Johanna Gunawan, with PIs David Choffnes (NEU) and Woodrow Hartzog (Boston), continues to make…Continue Reading OECD cites multiple Frontier work in Dark Commercial Patterns report
PIs awarded Noyce Initiative UC Partnerships Grant
Last week, PIs Zubair Shafiq and Athina Markopoulou, and Co-PI Gene Tsudik were awarded a Noyce Initiative UC Partnerships in Computational Transformation grant. This program aims to award faculty from five of the University of California campuses – Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Santa Barbara, and San Francisco- funds to advance novel and innovative cross-discipline and cross-campus…Continue Reading PIs awarded Noyce Initiative UC Partnerships Grant
Four papers presented at USENIX 2022
Research presented at the 31st USENIX Security Symposium in August included auditing of network traffic and privacy policies in Oculus Virtual Reality (OVR), ML-based approaches to detect ad and tracking request chains and a novel graph manipulation evasion technique, and the design of a minimal active ROT for low-end MCU-s. Project scientist, Rahmadi Trimananda (UC…Continue Reading Four papers presented at USENIX 2022
Research presented at PETS 2022
At the 22nd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) which took place in Sydney, Australia and online, ProperData members presented three research papers covering Smart TV and browser fingerprinting techniques and the design and implementation of a blackout-resistant anonymity network. UCI graduate student, Janus Varmarken’s presented, “FingerprinTV: Fingerprinting SmartTV Apps,” a fully automated methodology to extract…Continue Reading Research presented at PETS 2022