3 papers
cs.CR2024
The Privacy-Utility Trade-off in the Topics API
Mário S. Alvim, Natasha Fernandes, Annabelle McIver +1
The ongoing deprecation of third-party cookies by web browser vendors has sparked the proposal of alternative methods to support more privacy-preserving personalized advertising on…
cs.CR2023
A Quantitative Information Flow Analysis of the Topics API
Mário S. Alvim, Natasha Fernandes, Annabelle McIver +1
Third-party cookies have been a privacy concern since cookies were first developed in the mid 1990s, but more strict cookie policies were only introduced by Internet browser vendor…
cs.CR2023
A novel analysis of utility in privacy pipelines, using Kronecker products and quantitative information flow
Mário S. Alvim, Natasha Fernandes, Annabelle McIver +2
We combine Kronecker products, and quantitative information flow, to give a novel formal analysis for the fine-grained verification of utility in complex privacy pipelines. The com…