Arvind Narayanan is an Assistant Professor at Princeton's Department of Computer Science and Center for Information Technology Policy and an Affiliate Scholar at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society. He studies information privacy and security, and has a side-interest in tech policy. His research has shown that data anonymization is broken in fundamental ways, for which he jointly received the 2008 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award. He is one of the researchers behind the "Do Not Track" proposal. You can follow Arvind on Twitter at @random_walker and on Google+ here.
Arvind Narayanan
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Is affiliate marketing disclosed to consumers on social media?
YouTube has millions of videos similar in spirit to this one: The video reviews Blue Apron—an online grocery service—describing how it is efficient and cheaper…
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How The US Government Handles Its Massive Stash Of Bitcoins
"Earlier this year, Arvind Narayanan, a professor at Princeton, conducted research about coins that are burnt and forever unspendable. “We have all heard s…
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Security experts wonder if privacy is going extinct – and at what cost
"“Just how bad is online tracking?” asked Arvind Narayanan, a researcher at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, as he made a p…
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HTML5 may as well stand for Hey, Track Me Longtime 5. Ads can use it to fingerprint netizens
"In a presentation at Usenix's Enigma 2018 conference in California this week, Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeto…
Website operators are in the dark about privacy violations by third-party scripts
by Steven Englehardt, Gunes Acar, and Arvind Narayanan. Recently we revealed that “session replay” scripts on websites record everything you do, like someone l…
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Ad targeters are pulling data from your browser’s password manager
"For Narayanan, most of the blame goes to the websites who choose to run scripts like AdThink, often without realizing how invasive they truly are. “We'…
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Web Trackers Lift Email Addresses Via Browser's Autofill Feature
""In my experience, (the website) publishers are by-and-large unaware of the privacy-invasive behavior of the third-party scripts that they add to the…
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In 2017, society started taking AI bias seriously
""2017, perhaps, was a watershed year, and I predict that in the next year or two the issue is only going to continue to increase in importance,"…
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Prof Shows How Your Internet Activity Is Being Watched
"According to Narayanan, even without trackers, it is safe to conclude that anonymity does not exist on the internet. Narayanan’s group previously demonstr…
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Canada approves first cryptocurrency sale in property rights shake-up
"Following the growth of bitcoin, the most well known cryptocurrency, there are now more than 1,000 similar digital currencies being traded over the intern…
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How an online wedding registry in my name appeared out of thin air
"Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professor at Princeton University and an expert on internet privacy, correctly captured my angst when he told me that…
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Perpetuating Bias: Why We Should Think Critically About Artificial Intelligence in Marketing
"Arvind Narayanan, assistant professor in computer science at Princeton said, “We have a situation where these artificial intelligence systems may be perpe…