4 papers
From Third-Party to First-Party: Measuring and Protecting Against Modern Web Tracking Mechanisms
Christian Böttger, Tareq Khouja, Norbert Pohlmann +2
Web user tracking has always been a cat-and-mouse game between privacy-conscious users and trackers. Recently, this conflict has driven a shift from third-party tracking toward fir…
Understanding Data Collection, Brokerage, and Spam in the Lead Marketing Ecosystem
Yash Vekaria, Nurullah Demir, Konrad Kollnig +1
The lead marketing ecosystem enables collection, sale, and use of personal data submitted via web forms to deliver personalized quotes in high-value verticals such as insurance. De…
Keys on Doormats: Exposed API Credentials on the Web
Nurullah Demir, Yash Vekaria, Georgios Smaragdakis +1
Application programming interfaces (APIs) have become a central part of the modern IT environment, allowing developers to enrich the functionality of applications and interact with…
Every Keystroke You Make: A Tech-Law Measurement and Analysis of Event Listeners for Wiretapping
Shaoor Munir, Nurullah Demir, Qian Li +2
The privacy community has a long track record of investigating emerging types of web tracking techniques. Recent work has focused on compliance of web trackers with new privacy law…