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06/14/2023
The Devil is in the Details: Analyzing the Lucrative Ad Fraud Patterns of the Online Ad Ecosystem
The online advertising market has recently reached the 500 billion dolla...
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03/01/2023
Poster: Sponge ML Model Attacks of Mobile Apps
Machine Learning (ML)-powered apps are used in pervasive devices such as...
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12/14/2022
A Survey on Privacy of Personal and Non-Personal Data in B5G/6G Networks
The upcoming Beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G networks are expected to provide enh...
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12/13/2022
FNDaaS: Content-agnostic Detection of Fake News sites
Automatic fake news detection is a challenging problem in misinformation...
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09/23/2022
Privacy-Preserving Online Content Moderation: A Federated Learning Use Case
Users are daily exposed to a large volume of harmful content on various ...
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08/01/2022
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Facebook Web Tracking with Invisible Pixels and Click IDs
Over the past years, advertisement companies have used a variety of trac...
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06/22/2022
FLaaS: Enabling Practical Federated Learning on Mobile Environments
Federated Learning (FL) has recently emerged as a popular solution to di...
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06/10/2022
Hierarchical Federated Learning with Privacy
Federated learning (FL), where data remains at the federated clients, an...
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05/27/2022
YouTubers Not madeForKids: Detecting Channels Sharing Inappropriate Videos Targeting Children
In the last years, hundreds of new Youtube channels have been creating a...
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03/08/2022
A Survey on Privacy for B5G/6G: New Privacy Goals, Challenges, and Research Directions
Massive progress of mobile wireless telecommunication networks was achie...
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02/10/2022
Who Funds Misinformation? A Systematic Analysis of the Ad-related Profit Routines of Fake News sites
Fake news is an age-old phenomenon, widely assumed to be associated with...
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02/10/2022
Leveraging Google's Publisher-specific IDs to Detect Website Administration
Digital advertising is the most popular way for content monetization on ...
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10/21/2021
Be Daring to Push your Ads Forward: Measuring the (Over)use of Service Workers for Advertising Purposes
Rich offline experience, periodic background sync, push notification fun...
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04/29/2021
PPFL: Privacy-preserving Federated Learning with Trusted Execution Environments
We propose and implement a Privacy-preserving Federated Learning (PPFL) ...
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04/07/2021
A First Look into the Structural Properties and Resilience of Blockchain Overlays
Blockchain (BC) systems are highly distributed peer-to-peer networks tha...
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03/26/2021
YouTubing at Home: Media Sharing Behavior Change as Proxy for MobilityAround COVID-19 Lockdowns
Compliance with public health measures, such as restrictions on movement...
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03/16/2021
The Rise and Fall of Fake News sites: A Traffic Analysis
Over the past decade, we have witnessed the rise of misinformation on th...
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03/07/2021
Differential Tracking Across Topical Webpages of Indian News Media
Online user privacy and tracking have been extensively studied in recent...
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02/17/2021
User Tracking in the Post-cookie Era: How Websites Bypass GDPR Consent to Track Users
During the past few years, mostly as a result of the GDPR and the CCPA, ...
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02/06/2021
Under the Spotlight: Web Tracking in Indian Partisan News Websites
India is experiencing intense political partisanship and sectarian divis...
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11/18/2020
FLaaS: Federated Learning as a Service
Federated Learning (FL) is emerging as a promising technology to build m...
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08/20/2020
Not one but many Tradeoffs: Privacy Vs. Utility in Differentially Private Machine Learning
Data holders are increasingly seeking to protect their user's privacy, w...
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07/02/2020
S2CE: A Hybrid Cloud and Edge Orchestrator for Mining Exascale Distributed Streams
The explosive increase in volume, velocity, variety, and veracity of dat...
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06/30/2020
I call BS: Fraud Detection in Crowdfunding Campaigns
Donations to charity-based crowdfunding environments have been on the ri...
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06/17/2020
Catching them red-handed: Real-time Aggression Detection on Social Media
The rise of online aggression on social media is evolving into a major p...
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02/24/2020
Angry Birds Flock Together: Aggression Propagation on Social Media
Cyberaggression has been found in various contexts and online social pla...
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02/03/2020
Stop Tracking Me Bro! Differential Tracking Of User Demographics On Hyper-partisan Websites
Websites with hyper-partisan, left or right-leaning focus offer content ...
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07/30/2019
Clash of the Trackers: Measuring the Evolution of the Online Tracking Ecosystem
Websites are constantly adapting the methods used, and intensity with wh...
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07/24/2019
Measuring ad value without bankrupting user privacy
Recent work has demonstrated that by monitoring the Real Time Bidding (R...
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07/24/2019
No More Chasing Waterfalls: A Measurement Study of the Header Bidding Ad-Ecosystem
In the last few years, Header Bidding (HB) has gained popularity among w...
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07/20/2019
Detecting Cyberbullying and Cyberaggression in Social Media
Cyberbullying and cyberaggression are increasingly worrisome phenomena a...
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07/03/2019
Beyond content analysis: Detecting targeted ads via distributed counting
Being able to check whether an online advertisement has been targeted is...
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04/24/2019
A Self-Attentive Emotion Recognition Network
Modern deep learning approaches have achieved groundbreaking performance...
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01/21/2019
Disturbed YouTube for Kids: Characterizing and Detecting Disturbing Content on YouTube
A considerable number of the most-subscribed YouTube channels feature co...
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12/29/2018
Cross-Device Tracking: Systematic Method to Detect and Measure CDT
Online advertising, the backbone of the free Web, has transformed the ma...
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09/25/2018
LOBO -- Evaluation of Generalization Deficiencies in Twitter Bot Classifiers
Botnets in online social networks are increasingly often affecting the r...
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06/07/2018
There goes Wally: Anonymously sharing your location gives you away
With current technology, a number of entities have access to user mobili...
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05/26/2018
Cookie Synchronization: Everything You Always Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask
User data is the primary input of digital advertising, the fuel of free ...
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05/26/2018
Large-Scale Learning from Data Streams with Apache SAMOA
Apache SAMOA (Scalable Advanced Massive Online Analysis) is an open-sour...
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05/21/2018
"You Know What to Do": Proactive Detection of YouTube Videos Targeted by Coordinated Hate Attacks
Over the years, the Web has shrunk the world, allowing individuals to sh...
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04/10/2018
The Web of False Information: Rumors, Fake News, Hoaxes, Clickbait, and Various Other Shenanigans
A new era of Information Warfare has arrived. Various actors, including ...
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02/01/2018
A Unified Deep Learning Architecture for Abuse Detection
Hate speech, offensive language, sexism, racism and other types of abusi...
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02/24/2017
Measuring #GamerGate: A Tale of Hate, Sexism, and Bullying
Over the past few years, online aggression and abusive behaviors have oc...
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