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As third-party cookie blocking is becoming the norm in mainstream web browsers, advertisers and trackers have started to use first-party cookies for tracking. To understand this phenomenon, we conduct a differential measurement study with versus without th ...

New York2023

Protecting privacy through metadata analysis

Sandra Deepthy Siby

Although encryption hides the content of communications from third parties, metadata, i.e., the information attached to the content (such as the size or timing of communication) can be a rich source of details and context. In this dissertation, we demonstr ...

EPFL2022

Measuring the Security of Website Fingerprinting Defences

Website fingerprinting (WF) attacks can compromise a user’s online privacy, by learning network traffic patterns generated by websites through machine learning (ML) techniques. Such attacks remain unaffected by encryption and even defeat anonymity services ...

2019

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Mobile Applications and Services

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Over a third of the world's population owns a smartphone. As generic computing devices that support a large and heterogeneous collection of mobile applications (apps), smartphones provide a plethora of functionalities and services to billions of users. B ...

EPFL2019

MyAdChoices: Bringing Transparency and Control to Online Advertising

Jagdish Prasad Achara

The intrusiveness and the increasing invasiveness of online advertising have, in the last few years, raised serious concerns regarding user privacy andWeb usability. As a reaction to these concerns, we have witnessed the emergence of a myriad of ad-blockin ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2017

Some Things You Always Wanted to Know About Web Pages (But Were Too Busy to Ask)

Willy Zwaenepoel, Simon Schubert

The organic growth of the web has led to web sites that exhibit a large variety of properties. We conduct a large- scale study to gain quantitative insights into the browser-side effects of the structure and behavior of thousands of the most popular web si ...

2012

Mixed Wannier-Bloch functions for electrons and phonons in periodic systems

Alfredo Pasquarello

We introduce mixed Wannier-Bloch functions for studying electronic and vibrational spectra of periodic systems. These functions carry both spatial localization and limited spectral broadening, thereby combining the advantages of descriptions based on energ ...

2006

Method for defining a location in a section under medical examination refers to a system of coordinates and subsequently to a collection of topological data

Theo Lasser

A targeting device (35) determines a first location in an area under examination with reference to a system (13) of coordinates and makes coordinates for the first location available as a first coordinate set allocated to the first location. A topology cap ...

2002

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