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On Exercising Governance Power in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Vabuk Pahari, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Johnnatan Messias +2
The paper examines how design choices in DAO governance contracts affect trust and transparency, identifies vulnerabilities, and discovers a new class of governance attacks in Ethe…
On the Centralization of Governance Power in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Vabuk Pahari, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Johnnatan Messias +2
A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is a governing entity that empowers its stakeholders (i.e., users who hold one or more of its tokens) to manage blockchain-based proto…
Setting the Course, but Forgetting to Steer: Analyzing Compliance with GDPR's Right of Access to Data by Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube
Sai Keerthana Karnam, Abhisek Dash, Antariksh Das +6
The GDPR's Right of Access aims to empower users with control over their personal data via Data Download Packages (DDPs). However, their effectiveness is often compromised by incon…
The Algorithmic Self-Portrait: Deconstructing Memory in ChatGPT
Abhisek Dash, Soumi Das, Elisabeth Kirsten +6
To enable personalized and context-aware interactions, conversational AI systems have introduced a new mechanism: Memory. Memory creates what we refer to as the Algorithmic Self-po…
Bowling with ChatGPT: On the Evolving User Interactions with Conversational AI Systems
Sai Keerthana Karnam, Abhisek Dash, Krishna P. Gummadi +3
Recent studies have discussed how users are increasingly using conversational AI systems, powered by LLMs, for information seeking, decision support, and even emotional support. Ho…
Does Ad-Free Mean Less Data Collection? An Empirical Study of Platform Data Practices and User Expectations
Sepehr Mousavi, Abhisek Dash, Savvas Zannettou +1
Online platforms increasingly offer "paid" ad-free subscriptions as an alternative to the traditional "free" ad-based model. The transition to ad-free models ostensibly removes adv…