6 papers
Addressing Labelled Data Scarcity: Taxonomy-Agnostic Annotation of PII Values in HTTP Traffic using LLMs
Thomas Cory, Axel Küpper
Automated privacy audits of web and mobile applications often analyse outbound HTTP traffic to detect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) leakage. However, existing learning-…
SoK: After Decades of Web Tracker Detection, What's Next?
Wolf Rieder, Philip Raschke, Thomas Cory +3
Web tracking is an omnipresent phenomenon in today's web, affecting users in their day-to-day lives. Filter lists and blockers were invented to detect trackers and to protect users…
Word-level Annotation of GDPR Transparency Compliance in Privacy Policies using Large Language Models
Thomas Cory, Wolf Rieder, Julia Krämer +3
Ensuring transparency of data practices related to personal information is a core requirement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). However, large-scale compliance asse…
Decentralized Credential Status Management: A Paradigm Shift in Digital Trust
Patrick Herbke, Thomas Cory, Mauro Migliardi
Public key infrastructures are essential for Internet security, ensuring robust certificate management and revocation mechanisms. The transition from centralized to decentralized s…
A Qualitative Analysis Framework for mHealth Privacy Practices
Thomas Cory, Wolf Rieder, Thu-My Huynh
Mobile Health (mHealth) applications have become a crucial part of health monitoring and management. However, the proliferation of these applications has also raised concerns over…
Beyond the Request: Harnessing HTTP Response Headers for Cross-Browser Web Tracker Classification in an Imbalanced Setting
Wolf Rieder, Philip Raschke, Thomas Cory
The World Wide Web's connectivity is greatly attributed to the HTTP protocol, with HTTP messages offering informative header fields that appeal to disciplines like web security and…