First Party Tracking Cookies

When you accept cookies on a website, you cannot tell whether the cookies are used for tracking your personal data or not. Shaoor Munir’s machine learning model does that. On the show today, the Ph.D student at the University of California, discussed the world of first-party cookies and how he developed a machine learning model that predicts whether a first-party cookie is used for tracking purposes.

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Shaoor Munir: I am a first-year Ph.D. student of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, where I am currently being advised by Professor Zubair Shafiq. My research interests revolve around making the internet private and secure for all netizens through the use of modern machine learning and data analytics techniques.