Misconceptions about digital security and privacy topics in the general public frequently lead
to insecure behavior. However, little is known about the prevalence and extent of such …

Privacy dashboards and transparency tools help users review and manage the data
collected about them online. Since 2016, Google has offered such a tool, My Activity, which …

Cyber novices often enter sensitive data into web browsers for routine activities such as
online shop** and bill payments, making them targets for malicious entities, including …

End-to-end (E2E) encrypted communication tools can help users keep their communications
secure from government or corporate surveillance. In this work, we conduct a quantitative …

The privacy threats of online tracking have garnered considerable attention in recent years
from researchers and practitioners. This has resulted in users becoming more …

Communication tools with end-to-end (E2E) encryption help users maintain their privacy.
Although messengers like WhatsApp and Signal bring E2E encryption to a broad audience …

Although targeted advertising has drawn significant attention from privacy researchers,
many critical empirical questions remain. In particular, only a few of the dozens of targeting …

Previous research has suggested that people use the private browsing mode of their web
browsers to conduct privacy-sensitive activities online, but have misconceptions about how it …

In this paper, we help to advance the understanding of how to effectively label content
generated by AI. First, we highlight that there are two fundamentally different goals of …

Browser extensions enrich users' browsing experience, eg, by blocking unwanted
advertisements on websites. To perform these functions, users must grant certain …