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The Effectiveness of Privacy Enhancing Technologies against Fingerprinting
Amit Datta, Jianan Lu, Michael Carl Tschantz
We measure how effective Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) are at protecting users from website fingerprinting. Our measurements use both experimental and observational methods…
Cybercasing 2.0: You Get What You Pay For
Jaeyoung Choi, Istemi Ekin Akkus, Serge Egelman +4
Under U.S. law, marketing databases exist under almost no legal restrictions concerning accuracy, access, or confidentiality. We explore the possible (mis)use of these databases in…
The Accuracy of the Demographic Inferences Shown on Google's Ad Settings
Michael Carl Tschantz, Serge Egelman, Jaeyoung Choi +2
Google's Ad Settings shows the gender and age that Google has inferred about a web user. We compare the inferred values to the self-reported values of 501 survey participants. We f…
Correspondences between Privacy and Nondiscrimination: Why They Should Be Studied Together
Anupam Datta, Shayak Sen, Michael Carl Tschantz
Privacy and nondiscrimination are related but different. We make this observation precise in two ways. First, we show that both privacy and nondiscrimination have two versions, a c…
Avoiding Disparity Amplification under Different Worldviews
Samuel Yeom, Michael Carl Tschantz
We mathematically compare four competing definitions of group-level nondiscrimination: demographic parity, equalized odds, predictive parity, and calibration. Using the theoretical…
A Bestiary of Blocking: The Motivations and Modes behind Website Unavailability
Sadia Afroz, Mobin Javed, Vern Paxson +3
This paper examines different reasons the websites may vary in their availability by location. Prior works on availability mostly focus on censorship by nation states. We look at t…