"Study Finds Thousands of Browser Extensions Compromise User Data"

The extraction of sensitive user data from web pages by thousands of browser extensions poses significant privacy risks, as revealed by research conducted by Georgia Tech. This underscores the need for more robust privacy measures and improved enforcement. A team of researchers led by Frank Li, assistant professor in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Ph.D. student Qinge Xie, developed a new system to monitor browser extensions' collection of user content from web pages. This article continues to discuss the study "Arcanum: Detecting and Evaluating the Privacy Risks of Browser Extensions on Web Pages and Web Content."

Georgia Tech reports "Study Finds Thousands of Browser Extensions Compromise User Data"

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