Miranda Wei
University of Washington
10 Papers
2 Citations
Miranda Wei is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computer science & The Internet. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 7 publications. Previous affiliations of Miranda Wei include University of Chicago.
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Papers
Oh, the Places You've Been! User Reactions to Longitudinal Transparency About Third-Party Web Tracking and Inferencing
Ben Weinshel,Miranda Wei,Mainack Mondal,Euirim Choi,Shawn Shan,Claire Dolin,Michelle L. Mazurek,Blase Ur +7 more
- 06 Nov 2019
TL;DR: Tracking Transparency is presented, a privacy-preserving browser extension that visualizes examples of long-term, longitudinal information that third-party trackers could have inferred from users' browsing.
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•Proceedings Article
What Twitter Knows: Characterizing Ad Targeting Practices, User Perceptions, and Ad Explanations Through Users' Own Twitter Data.
Miranda Wei,Madison Stamos,Sophie Veys,Nathan Reitinger,Justin Goodman,Margot Herman,Dorota Filipczuk,Ben Weinshel,Michelle L. Mazurek,Blase Ur +9 more
- 01 Jan 2020
TL;DR: Many targeting mechanisms ignored by prior work — including advertiser-uploaded lists of specific users, lookalike audiences, and retargeting campaigns — are widely used on Twitter and participants found these understudied practices among the most privacy invasive.
•Proceedings Article
Exploring User Mental Models of End-to-End Encrypted Communication Tools
Ruba Abu-Salma,Elissa M. Redmiles,Blase Ur,Miranda Wei +3 more
- 01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: The findings suggest that the primary user-related challenge for E2E encrypted tools may no longer be adoption, but helping users who already have these tools avoid sending sensitive information over less secure channels.
Your Secrets Are Safe: How Browsers' Explanations Impact Misconceptions About Private Browsing Mode
Yuxi Wu,Panya Gupta,Miranda Wei,Yasemin Acar,Sascha Fahl,Blase Ur +5 more
- 23 Apr 2018
TL;DR: It is found that browsers» disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions the authors tested, and participants who saw certain disclosures were more likely to have misconceptions about private browsing»s impact on targeted advertising, the persistence of lists of downloaded files, and tracking by ISPs, employers, and governments.
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Taking Data Out of Context to Hyper-Personalize Ads: Crowdworkers' Privacy Perceptions and Decisions to Disclose Private Information
Julia Hanson,Miranda Wei,Sophie Veys,Matthew B. Kugler,Lior Strahilevitz,Blase Ur +5 more
- 21 Apr 2020
TL;DR: The results relative to the privacy paradox, contextual integrity, and power dynamics in crowdworker platforms are unpacked.
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