Personalized content recommendations on smart TV: Challenges, opportunities, and future research directions

I Alam, S Khusro, M Khan - Entertainment Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Web recommender systems play a significant role in different domains, such as movies,
books, music, etc., and contributes to not only user satisfaction but also to e-business and e …

Understanding dark patterns in home IoT devices

M Kowalczyk, JT Gunawan, D Choffnes… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are ubiquitous, but little attention has been paid to how they
may incorporate dark patterns despite consumer protections and privacy concerns arising …

IoTLS: understanding TLS usage in consumer IoT devices

MT Paracha, DJ Dubois, N Vallina-Rodriguez… - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Consumer IoT devices are becoming increasingly popular, with most leveraging TLS to
provide connection security. In this work, we study a large number of TLS-enabled consumer …

Tracking, profiling, and ad targeting in the Alexa echo smart speaker ecosystem

U Iqbal, PN Bahrami, R Trimananda, H Cui… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Smart speakers collect voice commands, which can be used to infer sensitive information
about users. Given the potential for privacy harms, there is a need for greater transparency …

{OVRseen}: Auditing network traffic and privacy policies in oculus {VR}

R Trimananda, H Le, H Cui, JT Ho, A Shuba… - 31st USENIX security …, 2022 - usenix.org
Virtual reality (VR) is an emerging technology that enables new applications but also
introduces privacy risks. In this paper, we focus on Oculus VR (OVR), the leading platform in …

Blocking without breaking: Identification and mitigation of non-essential iot traffic

AM Mandalari, DJ Dubois, R Kolcun… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Despite the prevalence of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, there is little information about the
purpose and risks of the Internet traffic these devices generate, and consumers have limited …

Iotflow: Inferring iot device behavior at scale through static mobile companion app analysis

D Schmidt, C Tagliaro, K Borgolte… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The number of" smart''devices, that is, devices making up the Internet of Things (IoT), is
steadily growing. They suffer from vulnerabilities just as other software and hardware …

How can and would people protect from online tracking?

M Mehrnezhad… - Proceedings on …, 2021 - durham-repository.worktribe.com
Online tracking is complex and users find itchallenging to protect themselves from it. While
the aca-demic community has extensively studied systems andusers for tracking practices …

Deep dive into the IoT backend ecosystem

SJ Saidi, S Matic, O Gasser, G Smaragdakis… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Internet of Things (IoT) devices are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, eg, at home, in
enterprise environments, and in production lines. To support the advanced functionalities of …

[HTML][HTML] {AutoFR}: Automated Filter Rule Generation for Adblocking

H Le, J Hayes, S Elmalaki, M Nasr… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
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