4 papers
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…