By Hooman Mohajeri Moghaddam, Gunes Acar, Ben Burgess, Arunesh Mathur, Danny Y. Huang, Nick Feamster, Ed Felten, Prateek Mittal, and Arvind Narayanan By 2020 one third of US households are estimated to “cut the cord”, i.e., discontinue their multichannel TV subscriptions and switch to internet-connected streaming services. Over-the-Top (“OTT”) streaming devices such as Roku and […]
Watching You Watch: The Tracking Ecosystem of Over-the-Top TV Streaming Devices
September 18, 2019 by Hooman Mohajeri Moghaddam
Filed Under: Internet of Things, Privacy & Security Tagged With: Fire TV, Roku, tracking
Verizon's tracking header: Can they do better?
January 14, 2015 by Steven Englehardt
Verizon’s practice of injecting a unique ID into the HTTP headers of traffic originating on their wireless network has alarmed privacy advocates and researchers. Jonathan Mayer detailed how this header is already being used by third-parties to create zombie cookies. In this post, I summarize just how much information Verizon collects and shares under their […]
