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Is Writing Style Sufficient to Deanonymize Material Posted Online?3 comments

Arvind Narayanan wrote 3 months ago: I have a new paper appearing at IEEE S&P with Hristo Paskov, Neil Gong, John Bethencourt, Emil S … more →

Tags: Anonymity, free speech, Machine learning, Natural Language Processing, Privacy, stylometry

No Two Digital Cameras Are the Same: Fingerprinting Via Sensor Noise5 comments

Arvind Narayanan wrote 8 months ago: The previous article looked at how pieces of blank paper can be uniquely identified. This article co … more →

Tags: Anonymity, Fingerprinting, signal processing

Link Prediction by De-anonymization: How We Won the Kaggle Social Network Challenge4 comments

Arvind Narayanan wrote 1 year ago: The title of this post is also the title of a new paper of mine with Elaine Shi and Ben Rubinstein. … more →

Tags: Anonymity, re-identification, Social Networks, Machine learning, contest

The Linkability of Usernames: a Step Towards "Uber-Profiles"2 comments

Arvind Narayanan wrote 1 year ago: Daniele Perito, Claude Castelluccia, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, and Pere Manils have a neat paper “Ho … more →

Tags: Anonymity, Linkage, Usernames, pseudonymity

Facebook’s Instant Personalization: An Analysis of Fundamental Privacy Flaws6 comments

Arvind Narayanan wrote 1 year ago: Facebook has begun to accelerate the web-wide roll-out of the Instant Personalization program. The n … more →

Tags: Privacy, facebook, ubercookies, instant personalization, ycombinator

An open letter to Netflix from the authors of the de-anonymization paper19 comments

Arvind Narayanan wrote 2 years ago: Dear Netflix, Today is a sad day. It is also a day of hope. It is a sad day because the second Netf … more →

Tags: Netflix, Privacy

History Stealing: It's All Shades of Grey4 comments

Arvind Narayanan wrote 2 years ago: Previous articles in this series showed that ‘Ubercookies’ can enable websites to learn … more →

Tags: ubercookies, History Stealing, advertising

How Google Docs Leaks Your Identity9 comments

Arvind Narayanan wrote 2 years ago: Recap. In the previous two articles in this Ubercookies series, I showed how an arbitrary website th … more →

Tags: Privacy, ubercookies, Google, GOOGLE DOCS, Web Security

Ubercookies Part 2: History Stealing meets the Social Web4 comments

Arvind Narayanan wrote 2 years ago: Recap. In the previous article I introduced ubercookies — techniques that websites can use to de-ano … more →

Tags: Privacy, Anonymity, Social Networks, ubercookies, web browsers, History Stealing

Cookies, Supercookies and Ubercookies: Stealing the Identity of Web Visitors25 comments

Arvind Narayanan wrote 2 years ago: Synopsis. Highly sticky techniques called supercookies for tracking web visitors are becoming well k … more →

Tags: Anonymity, Social Networks, Cookies, Supercookies, ubercookies, web browsers, History Stealing

Is Anonymity Research Ethical?8 comments

Arvind Narayanan wrote 3 years ago: A researcher who is working on writing style analysis (“stylometry”), after reading my p … more →

Tags: Anonymity, ethics


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