Tracking is a highly privacy-invasive data collection practice that has been ubiquitous in
mobile apps for many years due to its role in supporting advertising-based revenue models …

While many studies have looked at privacy properties of the Android and Google Play app
ecosystem, comparatively much less is known about iOS and the Apple App Store, the most …

User demand for blocking advertising and tracking online is large and growing. Existing
tools, both deployed and described in research, have proven useful, but lack either the …

Third-party tracking, the collection and sharing of behavioural data about individuals, is a
significant and ubiquitous privacy threat in mobile apps. The EU General Data Protection …

Third-party tracking allows companies to collect users' behavioural data and track their
activity across digital devices. This can put deep insights into users' private lives into the …

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 …

In order to improve mobile data transparency, various approaches have been proposed to
inspect network traffic generated by mobile devices and detect exposure of personally …

Users rely on ad and tracker blocking tools to protect their privacy. Unfortunately, existing ad
and tracker blocking tools are susceptible to mutable advertising and tracking content. In this …

Large-scale Web crawls have emerged as the state of the art for studying characteristics of
the Web. In particular, they are a core tool for online tracking research. Web crawling is an …

Web tracking and advertising (WTA) nowadays are ubiquitously performed on the web,
continuously compromising users' privacy. Existing defense solutions, such as widely …