News and Research articles on Commercial surveillance

‘Cookie-less’ identification for/against privacy?

Ido Sivan-Sevilla, University of Maryland
Patrick Parham, University of Maryland
Lee McGuigan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Aug 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.3.2025

The online advertising industry is shifting content monetisation mechanisms to rely on first-party user identification architectures. The paper evaluates these architectures based on a novel typology to assess their privacy implications.