[Air-L] NDSS MADWeb Keynote - Problematic Content in Online Ads - Franzisca Roesner

[Joly MacFie]

NDSS 2022 Measurements, Attacks, and Defenses for the Web (MADWeb) Workshop
2022 - Keynote 2 - Problematic Content in Online Ads

https://youtu.be/HO1bU05Zukw


Online advertisements are an unavoidable fact of the modern web: they are
embedded in and financially support the majority of content websites.
Significant prior work in the computer security and privacy community has
previously studied the ecosystem of online advertising, particularly in
terms of its privacy implications. What has not been substantively
considered in the security community, however, is the visible, user-facing
content of these advertisements. Our recent work reveals significant
prevalence of a range of problematic content in these ads, including
clickbait, misinformation, scams, and manipulative design patterns. In this
talk, I will describe our work characterizing and measuring problematic
content in the online ad ecosystem, including an investigation of ad
content on misinformation sites and a study of political-themed ads on news
and media websites around the time of the 2020 U.S. elections.

SPEAKER
Franzisca Roesner (University of Washington)

Franziska (Franzi) Roesner is an Associate Professor in the Paul G. Allen
School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington,
where she co-directs the Security and Privacy Research Lab. Her research
focuses broadly on computer security and privacy for end users of existing
and emerging technologies. Her work has studied topics including online
tracking and advertising, security and privacy for sensitive user groups,
security and privacy in emerging augmented reality (AR) and IoT platforms,
and online mis/disinformation. She is the recipient of a Consumer Reports
Digital Lab Fellowship, an MIT Technology Review "Innovators Under 35"
Award, an Emerging Leader Alumni Award from the University of Texas at
Austin, a Google Security and Privacy Research Award, and an NSF CAREER
Award. She serves on the USENIX Security and USENIX Enigma Steering
Committees.


Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2022, 24 – 28
April, 2022   Catamaran Resort Hotel & Spa, San Diego, California, and
online.

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