5 papers
Privacy Practices of Browser Agents
Alisha Ukani, Hamed Haddadi, Ali Shahin Shamsabadi +1
This paper presents a systematic evaluation of the privacy behaviors and attributes of eight recent, popular browser agents. Browser agents are software that automate Web browsing…
Measuring the Accuracy and Effectiveness of PII Removal Services
Jiahui He, Pete Snyder, Hamed Haddadi +2
This paper presents the first large-scale empirical study of commercial personally identifiable information (PII) removal systems -- commercial services that claim to improve priva…
Nebula: Efficient, Private and Accurate Histogram Estimation
Ali Shahin Shamsabadi, Peter Snyder, Ralph Giles +2
We present \textit{Nebula}, a system for differentially private histogram estimation on data distributed among clients. \textit{Nebula} allows clients to independently decide wheth…
Local Frames: Exploiting Inherited Origins to Bypass Content Blockers
Alisha Ukani, Hamed Haddadi, Alex C. Snoeren +1
We present a study of how local frames (i.e., iframes loading content like "about:blank") are mishandled by a wide range of popular Web security and privacy tools. As a result, use…
Web Execution Bundles: Reproducible, Accurate, and Archivable Web Measurements
Florian Hantke, Peter Snyder, Hamed Haddadi +1
Recently, reproducibility has become a cornerstone in the security and privacy research community, including artifact evaluations and even a new symposium topic. However, Web measu…