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Uncovering Relationships between Android Developers, User Privacy, and Developer Willingness to Reduce Fingerprinting Risks
Alex Berke, Güliz Seray Tuncay, Michael Specter +1
The major mobile platforms, Android and iOS, have introduced changes that restrict user tracking to improve user privacy, yet apps continue to covertly track users via device finge…
Measuring risks inherent to our digital economies using Amazon purchase histories from US consumers
Alex Berke, Kent Larson, Sandy Pentland +1
What do pickles and trampolines have in common? In this paper we show that while purchases for these products may seem innocuous, they risk revealing clues about customers' persona…
Evaluating Amazon Effects and the Limited Impact of COVID-19 With Purchases Crowdsourced from US Consumers
Alex Berke, Dana Calacci, Alex +2
We leverage a recently published dataset of Amazon purchase histories, crowdsourced from thousands of US consumers, to study how online purchasing behaviors have changed over time,…
How Unique is Whose Web Browser? The role of demographics in browser fingerprinting among US users
Alex Berke, Enrico Bacis, Badih Ghazi +5
Browser fingerprinting can be used to identify and track users across the Web, even without cookies, by collecting attributes from users' devices to create unique "fingerprints". T…
Insights from an experiment crowdsourcing data from thousands of US Amazon users: The importance of transparency, money, and data use
Alex Berke, Robert Mahari, Sandy Pentland +2
Data generated by users on digital platforms are a crucial resource for advocates and researchers interested in uncovering digital inequities, auditing algorithms, and understandin…
zkTax: A pragmatic way to support zero-knowledge tax disclosures
Alex Berke, Tobin South, Robert Mahari +2
Tax returns contain key financial information of interest to third parties: public officials are asked to share financial data for transparency, companies seek to assess the financ…
Routing with Privacy for Drone Package Delivery Systems
Geoffrey Ding, Alex Berke, Karthik Gopalakrishnan +3
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are increasingly being used to deliver goods from vendors to customers. To safely conduct these operations at scale, drones are required…
Generating synthetic mobility data for a realistic population with RNNs to improve utility and privacy
Alex Berke, Ronan Doorley, Kent Larson +1
Location data collected from mobile devices represent mobility behaviors at individual and societal levels. These data have important applications ranging from transportation plann…
Privacy Limitations Of Interest-based Advertising On The Web: A Post-mortem Empirical Analysis Of Google's FLoC
Alex Berke, Dan Calacci
In 2020, Google announced it would disable third-party cookies in the Chrome browser to improve user privacy. In order to continue to enable interest-based advertising while mitiga…
Private Delivery Networks -- Extended Abstract
Alex Berke, Nicolas Lee, Patrick Chwalek
The past decade has seen tremendous shifts in how people live, work, and buy goods, with an increased reliance on e-commerce and deliveries. Purchase histories generated through e-…
Urban Mobility Swarms: A Scalable Implementation
Alex Berke, Jason Nawyn, Thomas Sanchez Lengeling +1
We present a system to coordinate 'urban mobility swarms' in order to promote the use and safety of lightweight, sustainable transit, while enhancing the vibrancy and community fab…
Assessing Disease Exposure Risk with Location Data: A Proposal for Cryptographic Preservation of Privacy
Alex Berke, Michiel Bakker, Praneeth Vepakomma +2
Governments and researchers around the world are implementing digital contact tracing solutions to stem the spread of infectious disease, namely COVID-19. Many of these solutions t…
Apps Gone Rogue: Maintaining Personal Privacy in an Epidemic
Ramesh Raskar, Isabel Schunemann, Rachel Barbar +29
Containment, the key strategy in quickly halting an epidemic, requires rapid identification and quarantine of the infected individuals, determination of whom they have had close co…
The tradeoff between the utility and risk of location data and implications for public good
Dana Calacci, Alex Berke, Kent Larson +2
High-resolution individual geolocation data passively collected from mobile phones is increasingly sold in private markets and shared with researchers. This data poses significant…