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Honored to be recognized as one of the runners-up for the 2024 Caspar Bowden PET award. Our work proposes a framework to facilitate independent & repeatable audits on unmodified, off-the-shelf smart speakers without relying on cooperation from the platform vendors. Details here:

Congrats to Umar Iqbal and the ProperData Frontier team (Zubair Shafiq, David Choffnes, ++). Happy to see our work on auditing smart speakers recognized at PETS #pets2024 as Runner-Up for the Caspar-Bowden PET Award. The paper had quite a ride so far: properdata.eng.uci.edu/2023/10/24/sma….

🤓Check out our program page for more info: properdata.eng.uci.edu/events/privacy…

Excited about former student and ProperData Frontier alumni Hieu Le's next step. After a postdoc with Roya Ensafi , he joins the FTC's Office of Technology FTC's Office of Technology, where he can apply his expertise (in privacy, adtech , AI, among other things) for the common good. Go Hieu!

Nice to catch up with so many colleagues at the NSF SaTC PI meeting, hosted at Pittsburg #satcpi24. And to get the opportunity to represent ProperData Frontier.

📢Paper accepted at @ACM_IMC_2024 How do Smart TVs profile viewing activity of its users? We look at the tracking conducted directly by the Smart TV platforms via ACR to understand privacy implications in UK vs US. Gianluca Anselmi, Alexander D'Souza, P.C, Anna Maria Mandalari 🦋, Zubair Shafiq

Our research (w/ Gianluca Anselmi, Alexander D'Souza, P.C, Anna Maria Mandalari 🦋, Zubair Shafiq) on Smart TV ACR Tracking gets featured in New Scientist. See below👇 Article: newscientist.com/article/244919… Twitter thread: x.com/vekariayash/st… Full article: docs.google.com/document/d/1_0…

Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second newscientist.com/article/244919…

Congratulations to CUI Hao for defending his Ph.D. thesis on "Automated Privacy Policy Analysis for Auditing Data Collection". ProperData Frontier

How well do smart home IoT devices handle IPv6? In our @ACM_IMC_2024 paper, we tested 93 devices and only 8 remain functional in IPv6-only networks. See what’s holding IoT back and the challenges ahead for IoT in IPv6. moniotrlab.khoury.northeastern.edu/publications/i… David Choffnes Daniel J. Dubois 🇮🇹 #imc24

Over 18 months as the deputy US chief technology officer for privacy, Alan Mislove helped to build and actualize the Biden administration's AI priorities, calling on his years of security and privacy work to do so. Read here: bit.ly/3CepUM7

Nice to see everyone at the 2024 ProperData Frontier symposium - Halloween Edition. Going over last year's accomplishments and brainstorming the future: AI permeated most discussions.

Congrats Olivia Figueira and team ProperData Frontier UCI Engineering UCIbrenICS for this recognition #imc2024. DiffAudit paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2406.06473.

Yash Vekaria presenting our paper: "Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs" now at @ACM_IMC_2024 ! Check out the paper at: doi.org/10.1145/364654… Zubair Shafiq Anna Maria Mandalari 🦋

📱 Think your phone’s listening? David Choffnes shares it’s not - but your searches, clicks & social media reveal plenty. 🎙️ Listen to this week's episode of CNN Podcasts's Terms of Service for more: cnn.com/audio/podcasts…

Join us this Friday Dec 6th for Emily Wenger's seminar on "Reclaiming Data Agency in the Age of Ubiquitous Machine Learning". Location: Zoom Only (w/ registration) Register at: properdata.eng.uci.edu/events/properd…

❄️ Warmest wishes for a Happy Holiday Season from the ProperData team! ❄️

Join us as Alan Mislove speaks on "What I Learned at the White House, or, the Importance of Measurement Researchers Engaging with Policy". 🗓️Friday Feb 7th 💻 On Zoom (w/ registration) Register at: properdata.eng.uci.edu/events/properd…

A reminder to register for tomorrow's seminar by Alan Mislove! Details on our page: properdata.eng.uci.edu/events/properd…

The deadline of June 15 is coming up. ProperData Frontier