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Privacy Policies and Consent Management Platforms: Growth and Users' Interactions over Time
Nikhil Jha, Martino Trevisan, Marco Mellia +2
In response to growing concerns about user privacy, legislators have introduced new regulations and laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Co…
On the Robustness of Topics API to a Re-Identification Attack
Nikhil Jha, Martino Trevisan, Emilio Leonardi +1
Web tracking through third-party cookies is considered a threat to users' privacy and is supposed to be abandoned in the near future. Recently, Google proposed the Topics API frame…
Recommendation Systems in Libraries: an Application with Heterogeneous Data Sources
Alessandro Speciale, Greta Vallero, Luca Vassio +1
The Reading&Machine project exploits the support of digitalization to increase the attractiveness of libraries and improve the users' experience. The project implements an applicat…
Operationalizing AI in Future Networks: A Bird's Eye View from the System Perspective
Qiong Liu, Tianzhu Zhang, Masoud Hemmatpour +5
Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, led by Machine Learning (ML), have gained unprecedented momentum over the past decade. Following this wave of "AI summer", the net…
Understanding mobility in networks: A node embedding approach
Matheus F. C. Barros, Carlos H. G. Ferreira, Bruno Pereira dos Santos +3
Motivated by the growing number of mobile devices capable of connecting and exchanging messages, we propose a methodology aiming to model and analyze node mobility in networks. We…
On the Dynamics of Political Discussions on Instagram: A Network Perspective
Carlos H. G. Ferreira, Fabricio Murai, Ana P. C. Silva +5
Instagram has been increasingly used as a source of information especially among the youth. As a result, political figures now leverage the platform to spread opinions and politica…
The Internet with Privacy Policies: Measuring The Web Upon Consent
Nikhil Jha, Martino Trevisan, Luca Vassio +1
To protect users' privacy, legislators have regulated the usage of tracking technologies, mandating the acquisition of users' consent before collecting data. Consequently, websites…
z-anonymity: Zero-Delay Anonymization for Data Streams
Nikhil Jha, Thomas Favale, Luca Vassio +2
With the advent of big data and the birth of the data markets that sell personal information, individuals' privacy is of utmost importance. The classical response is anonymization,…
RL-IoT: Reinforcement Learning to Interact with IoT Devices
Giulia Milan, Luca Vassio, Idilio Drago +1
Our life is getting filled by Internet of Things (IoT) devices. These devices often rely on closed or poorly documented protocols, with unknown formats and semantics. Learning how…
Campus Traffic and e-Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic
Thomas Favale, Francesca Soro, Martino Trevisan +2
The COVID-19 pandemic led to the adoption of severe measures to counteract the spread of the infection. Social distancing and lockdown measures modifies people's habits, while the…
EXPLAIN-IT: Towards Explainable AI for Unsupervised Network Traffic Analysis
Andrea Morichetta, Pedro Casas, Marco Mellia
The application of unsupervised learning approaches, and in particular of clustering techniques, represents a powerful exploration means for the analysis of network measurements. D…
A Survey on Big Data for Network Traffic Monitoring and Analysis
Alessandro D'Alconzo, Idilio Drago, Andrea Morichetta +2
Network Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (NTMA) represents a key component for network management, especially to guarantee the correct operation of large-scale networks such as the…
IPPO: A Privacy-Aware Architecture for Decentralized Data-sharing
Maurizio Aiello, Enrico Cambiaso, Roberto Canonico +4
Online trackers personalize ads campaigns, exponentially increasing their efficacy compared to traditional channels. The downside of this is that thousands of mostly unknown system…
Towards Understanding Political Interactions on Instagram
Martino Trevisan, Luca Vassio, Idilio Drago +5
Online Social Networks (OSNs) allow personalities and companies to communicate directly with the public, bypassing filters of traditional medias. As people rely on OSNs to stay up-…
You, the Web and Your Device: Longitudinal Characterization of Browsing Habits
Luca Vassio, Idilio Drago, Marco Mellia +2
Understanding how people interact with the web is key for a variety of applications, e.g., from the design of effective web pages to the definition of successful online marketing c…
Uncovering the Flop of the EU Cookie Law
Martino Trevisan, Stefano Traverso, Hassan Metwalley +1
In 2002, the European Union (EU) introduced the ePrivacy Directive to regulate the usage of online tracking technologies. Its aim is to make tracking mechanisms explicit while incr…
WeBrowse: Mining HTTP logs online for network-based content recommendation
Giuseppe Scavo, Zied Ben Houidi, Stefano Traverso +2
A powerful means to help users discover new content in the overwhelming amount of information available today is sharing in online communities such as social networks or crowdsourc…
A First Look at Anycast CDN Traffic
Danilo Cicalese, Danilo Giordano, Alessandro Finamore +4
Anycast routing is an IP solution that allows packets to be routed to the topologically nearest server. Over the last years it has been commonly adopted to manage some services run…
YouLighter: An Unsupervised Methodology to Unveil YouTube CDN Changes
Danilo Giordano, Stefano Traverso, Luigi Grimaudo +4
YouTube relies on a massively distributed Content Delivery Network (CDN) to stream the billions of videos in its catalogue. Unfortunately, very little information about the design…
CrowdSurf: Empowering Informed Choices in the Web
Hassan Metwalley, Stefano Traverso, Marco Mellia +2
When surfing the Internet, individuals leak personal and corporate information to third parties whose (legitimate or not) businesses revolve around the value of collected data. The…