Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing,
steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. We …

In order to evaluate the prevalence of security and privacy practices on a representative
sample of the Web, researchers rely on website popularity rankings such as the Alexa list …

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May
25, 2018. Its privacy regulations apply to any service and company collecting or processing …

Researchers rely on lists of popular websites like the Alexa Top Million both to measure the
web and to evaluate proposed protocols and systems. Prior work has questioned the …

Remote censorship measurement techniques offer capabilities for monitoring Internet
reachability around the world. However, operating these techniques continuously is labor …

The term" threat intelligence" has swiftly become a staple buzzword in the computer security
industry. The entirely reasonable premise is that, by compiling up-to-date information about …

Privacy laws like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California
Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have pushed internet firms processing personal data to …

Researchers have studied Internet censorship for nearly as long as attempts to censor
contents have taken place. Most studies have however been limited to a short period of time …

This research compares four standard analytics metrics from Google Analytics with
SimilarWeb using one year's average monthly data for 86 websites from 26 countries and 19 …

DNS is often used by attackers as a covert channel for data exfiltration, also known as DNS
tunneling. Since the plaintext DNS lookup leads to privacy issues, DNS over HTTPS (DoH) …