Ashkan Soltani (bio)

I am an independent researcher and consultant focused on privacy, security, and behavioral economics.

Research and Discussion:
Detailed technical follow-up detailing the technical mechanisms behind Hulu/KISSmetrics' respawning practice detailed in Flash Cookies and Privacy II

Interview on Cyberjungle Radio about cookie respawning following my talk "When Zombies Attack - a Tracking Love Story" at the 2011 BSidesLV security conference

Flash Cookies and Privacy II: Now with HTML5 and ETag Respawning (Follow up report highlighting the use of Flash, HTML5, and browser cache to enable persistent tracking)

Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Privacy, Technology and the Law Subcommittee on Protecting Mobile Privacy. Video also available here and here

Netcaucus congressional briefing: Enabling Online Privacy With Do Not Track (Audio here)

Position paper for the W3C Workshop on Web Tracking and User Privacy (Apr 28/29 @ Princeton, NJ)

Testimony before the Senate Commerce Committe on The State of Consumer Privacy Video also available (my testimony @105:30 and @140:30)

The Wall Street Journal: Your Apps Are Watching You (Researched the leakage of personal information via mobile applications with David Campbell)

FTC - Division of Privacy and Identity Protection (Technologist at the FTC's privacy division)

The Wall Street Journal: What They Know (Researched the prevalence of online tracking for the WSJ. Based on my Master's thesis)

Knowprivacy: The Current State of Web Privacy, Data Collection, and Information Sharing (Master's Thesis)

Flash Cookies and Privacy (Research paper outlining privacy problems in the use of Flash cookies which became the basis for multiple class action lawsuits)
Contact:
Twitter: @ashk4n
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