Umar Iqbal

I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. I work with Prof. Franziska Roesner and also often collaborate with Prof. Tadayoshi Kohno.

My research mission is to educate and empower people by bringing transparency and control in the personal data collection and its abuse on the internet. To this end, I build privacy-enhancing tools to highlight and limit privacy-invasive data flows on the internet. I am currently working on the following research themes:
- 1. Measuring privacy harms in emerging systems (e.g., Smart speakers)
- 2. Auditing compliance of data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA)
- 3. Measuring next-gen tracking techniques (e.g., fingerprinting, first-party cookies)

Posted on 2022, JUL

Organized the ProperData IoT Privacy Workshop at the University of California-Irvine
Posted on 2022, MAY

Serving on the IEEE S&P and USENIX Security 2023 PC, consider submitting your work
Posted on 2021, OCT

Joined the University of Washington as a CI Fellow.