Yash Vekaria @yash-vekaria - Bluesky Profile

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Honored to have received "Distinguished Reviewer Award" at USENIX Security Symposium 2025 🎉

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23.09.2025 05:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Big Help or Big Brother? UC Davis Study Reveals Alarming Browser Tracking A new UC Davis-led study reveals that GenAI browser assistants collect and share sensitive data without users’ knowledge, calling for stronger safeguards, transparency and awareness to protect user pr...

@yash-vekaria.bsky.social is presenting his research "Big Help or Big Brother?" at the 2025 USENIX Security Symposium this week. The paper shows tracking and profiling risks in GenAI browser assistants. #USENIXSecurity

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13.08.2025 19:13 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

26.06.2025 16:28 — 👍 11075 🔁 4432 💬 205 📌 735

Yes, Your TV Is Probably Spying on You. Your Fridge, Too. Here’s What They Know.

@yash-vekaria.bsky.social's research on ACR-tracking by Smart TVs featured in @nytimes.com @nytwirecutter.bsky.social.

Checkout the article: nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

25.06.2025 09:39 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Naomi Brockwell TV Your TV Is Spying On You and Taking Screenshots

.@yash-vekaria.bsky.social describing privacy risks of ACR-based smart TV tracking
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21.06.2025 17:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

w/ Yohan Beugin @shaoormunir.bsky.social, Gunes Acar, Nataliia Bielova, @englehardt.bsky.social, @umariqbal.bsky.social, @kapravelos.com, @rockpartridge.bsky.social, Nick Nikiforakis, Jason Polakis, @franziroesner.bsky.social, @zubair-shafiq.bsky.social, Sebastian Zimmeck

18.06.2025 12:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We systematize developments in web tracking and identify open problems in the field in our new work: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14057

18.06.2025 12:15 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

@yash-vekaria is following 20 prominent accounts

Aurore Fass
@aurore-fass

Tenure-Track Faculty @CISPA USENIX Security Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair 2025 & 2026 Web Security & Privacy: JavaScript (in)security, browser extensions https://aurore54f.github.io

Chris Kanich
@kaytwo.org

I get unreasonably excited about Chicago, cybersecurity, education, and local impact. https://kaytwo.org

Miro Haller
@mirohaller

PhD student @ UCSD working on applied cryptography https://mirohaller.com

Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters
@privacymatters

Advocate for privacy and broader human rights impacted by data. Love nothing better than a hike in the hills. Embracing Yutori ゆとり over on @yutoriwalking.bsky.social

@aniketh01

Tianrui Hu
@hu-tr

PhD@Northeastern

Maximilian Golla
@maximiliangolla.com

🧑‍🔬 @cispa.de ❤️ Usable Security and Privacy 🔑 Passwords and User Authentication 🕵️ Transparency and Privacy Controls

Marco Squarcina
@minimalblue

Senior Scientist @TU Wien / Web & Mobile Security / #drumandbass DJ 🚩 with @mhackeroni.bsky.social We_0wn_Y0u kukhofhackerei Team Austria 🔗 https://minimalblue.com/

Woodrow Hartzog
@hartzog

Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Author of "Privacy's Blueprint" (2018) and co-author of "Breached!" (2022). Posting mainly about privacy, tech and the law.

Serge Egelman
@v0max

Scientist. Dir. of Usable Security & Privacy at the International Computer Science Institute (icsi.berkeley.edu). Founder, AppCensus (appcensus.io). All opinions are those of his employer(s), and not his own. https://www.guanotronic.com/~serge/

Hammad Mazhar
@hammadmazhar

Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Northern Colorado. Broadly interested in security and privacy issues in the IoT ecosystem. Growing the CS program at UNC

Giancarlo Pellegrino
@gianko

Faculty at CISPA.

John Wilander
@wilander

Hacker fiction novelist and WebKit Security & Privacy at Apple. Author newsletter and blog: hackerfiction dot net. My next thriller ”Submerged” should be out early 2025.

Paul Pearce
@pearce

Security Person. Georgia Tech Professor. I miss old Twitter.

Deepak Kumar
@kumarde

I'm a faculty member in Computer Science & Engineering @UCSD, a playwright, a composer, and a lyricist.

Rakibul Hasan
@rakib062

Privacy, safety, and human rights. Assistant professor of Computer Science at ASU. https://persue-lab-asu.github.io/

Gianluca Stringhini
@gianlucastringhini.com

Associate Professor at BU. Cybersecurity and Cybersafety. Come for the memes, stay for the science. Skeets are my own

Bailey 🕸️🕷️🦇
@bkacsmar

Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Amii Fellow. Human-centered privacy enhanced data science e.g., ML, MPC, PSI, etc. My group is PUPS, Practical Usable Privacy and Security https://bkacsmar.github.io//

Nikita Borisov
@nikitabear

Shomir Wilson
@shomir

Associate Professor of Human-Centered Computing and Social Informatics at Penn State. AI and sociotechnical NLP, especially for privacy and fairness. Also posting about academia, photography, and travel. Opinions mine. he/him. http://shomir.net