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Announcing IoT Inspector: Studying Smart Home IoT Device Behavior

Published: 23/04/2018

By Noah Apthorpe, Danny Y. Huang, Gunes Acar, Frank Li, Arvind Narayanan, Nick Feamster An increasing number of home devices, from thermostats to light bulbs to garage door openers, are now Internet-c ... Read more

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No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login

Published: 18/04/2018

by Steven Englehardt [0], Gunes Acar, and Arvind Narayanan So far in the No boundaries series, we’ve uncovered how web trackers exfiltrate identifying information from web pages, browser password mana ... Read more

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When the business model *is* the privacy violation

Published: 12/04/2018

Sometimes, when we worry about data privacy, we’re worried that data might fall into the wrong hands or be misused for unintended purposes. If I’m considering participating in a medical study, I’d wan ... Read more

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Is It Time for an Data Sharing Clearinghouse for Internet Researchers?

Published: 10/04/2018

Today’s Senate hearing with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg will start a long discussion on data collection and privacy from Internet companies. Although the spotlight is currently on Facebook, ... Read more

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Four cents to deanonymize: Companies reverse hashed email addresses

Published: 9/04/2018

[This is a joint post by Gunes Acar, Steve Englehardt, and me. I’m happy to announce that Steve has recently joined Mozilla as a privacy engineer while he wraps up his Ph.D. at Princeton. He coa ... Read more

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Oblivious DNS: Plugging the Internet’s Biggest Privacy Hole

Published: 2/04/2018

by Annie Edmundson, Paul Schmitt, Nick Feamster The recent news that Mozilla and Cloudflare are deploying their own DNS recursive resolver has once again raised hopes that users will enjoy improved pr ... Read more

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Judge Declares Some PACER Fees Illegal but Does Not Go Far Enough

Published: 2/04/2018

Five years ago, in a post called “Making Excuses for Fees on Electronic Public Records,” I described my attempts to persuade the federal Judiciary to stop charging for access to their web- ... Read more

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When The Choice Is To Delete Facebook Or Buy A Loaf Of Bread

Published: 28/03/2018

By Julieanne Romanosky and Marshini Chetty In the last week, there has been a growing debate around Facebook and privacy. On Twitter, the newly formed #deletefacebook movement calls for users who are ... Read more

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Is affiliate marketing disclosed to consumers on social media?

Published: 26/03/2018

By Arunesh Mathur, Arvind Narayanan and Marshini Chetty YouTube has millions of videos similar in spirit to this one: The video reviews Blue Apron—an online grocery service—describing how ... Read more

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