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Among several proposals for a privacy-preserving replacement of third-party cookies, Google's new Topics API is widely discussed as a possible solution. Some scepticism still lingers on the new paradigm from researchers and control bodies; however, the ...

Summarizing trending topics in large collections of Facebook posts is particularly relevant to profile social user activities and interests. However, automatically generating these summaries poses significant challenges due to the high ...

• A tool for abstractive summarization of multi-post collections is proposed.
• It exploits topic modeling techniques to handle post heterogeneity.
• It overcomes the limitations of existing approaches summarizing one post at a time.

Recently, Google proposed the Topics API framework as a privacy-friendly alternative for behavioural advertising as a possible solution to balance user’s privacy and advertisement effectiveness. Using the Topics API, the browser builds a user profile ...

URLs play an essential role on the Internet, allowing access to Web resources. Automatically generating URLs is helpful in various tasks, such as application debugging, API testing, and blocklist creation for security applications. Current testing suites ...

Welcome to the second ACM DATA ECONOMY WORKSHOP (DEC), co-located with ACM SIGCMOD 2023. Data-driven decision making through machine learning algorithms (ML) is transforming the way society and the economy work and is having a profound positive impact on ...

Recent developments in Internet protocols and services aim to provide enhanced security and privacy for users’ traffic. Apple’s iCloud Private Relay is a premier example of this trend, introducing a well-provisioned, multi-hop architecture to ...

Privacy on the Internet has become a priority, and several efforts have been devoted to limit the leakage of personal information. Domain names, both in the TLS Client Hello and DNS traffic, are among the last pieces of information still visible to an ...

With the advent of big data and the emergence of data markets, preserving individuals’ privacy has become of utmost importance. The classical response to this need is anonymization, i.e., sanitizing the information that, directly or ...

Satellite Communication (SatCom) offers internet connectivity where traditional infrastructures are too expensive to deploy. When using satellites in a geostationary orbit, the distance from Earth forces a round trip time higher than 550 ms. Coupled ...

With new Low Earth Orbit satellite constellations such as Starlink, satellite-based Internet access is becoming an alternative to traditional fixed and wireless technologies with comparable throughputs and latencies. In this paper, we investigate the ...

To protect user privacy, legislators have regulated the use of tracking technologies, mandating the acquisition of users’ consent before collecting data. As a result, websites started showing more and more consent management modules–i.e., Consent Banners–...

The web ecosystem is based on a market where stakeholders collect and sell personal data, but nowadays users expect stronger guarantees of transparency and privacy. With the PIMCity personal information management system (PIMS) development kit, we provide ...

The third version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is in the final standardization phase by the IETF. In addition to better security and greater flexibility, it promises performance benefits. HTTP/3 uses a more efficient ...

Retina is an open-source command-line tool that produces rich and complex statistics from real-time communication (RTC) traffic. Starting from raw packet captures, it creates summaries of observed streams with flexible ...

Current solutions to tackle phishing employ blocklists that are built from user reports or automatic approaches. They, however, fall short in detecting zero-day phishing attacks. We propose the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to automate ...

In many online social networks (OSNs), a limited portion of profiles emerges and reaches a large base of followers, i.e., the so-called social influencers. One of their main goals is to increase their fanbase to increase their visibility, engaging users ...

With the spread of broadband Internet, Real-Time Communication (RTC) platforms have become increasingly popular and have transformed the way people communicate. Thus, it is fundamental that the network adopts traffic management policies that ensure ...

Real-time communication (RTC) platforms have become increasingly popular in the last decade, together with the spread of broadband Internet access. They are nowadays a fundamental means for connecting people and supporting the economy, which relies more ...

The increasing usage of Real-Time Communication (RTC) applications for leisure and remote working calls for realistic and reproducible techniques to test them. They are used under very different network conditions: from high-speed broadband networks, to ...

Mobile networks have become ubiquitous and the primary means to access the Internet, and the traffic they generate has rapidly increased over the last years. The technology and service diversity in mobile networks call for extensive and accurate ...