I am a full-time Research Scientist (CR1) at Inria Sophia Antipolis in the PRIVATICS team.

I am interested in a wide range of privacy problems both from computer science and law perspectives. I'm working on

• Detecting new web tracking technologies
• Measuring web privacy in large scale experiments
• GDPR, ePrivacy directive and upcoming ePrivacy Regulation
• Web browser and Web application security mechanisms

Potential research position in PRIVATICS in Sophia Antipolis... email me for details!
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Recent news

• Nov 2019 I gave an invited talk at the Mozilla Security Research Summit 2019.
• Nov 2019 Our paper on tracking missed by the lists accepted at PETs 2020! Congrats, Imane!
• Oct 2019 I join PRIVATICS team and now lead PRIVATICS branch at Inria Sophia Antipolis.
• Sep 2019 Our paper on a legal-technical approach to compliance with EU laws on cookies is accepted at PLSC Europe 2019!
• Sep 2019 I serve in the PC of the Security and Privacy Track of TheWeb conference 2020!
• Jul 2019 Together with Cedric Lauradoux, we got a DATA4US project accepted under Inria "Exploratory actions" program.
• Jul 2019 I gave a keynote at the French Privacy workshop APVP 2019.
• Jun 2019 I co-chair CNIL-INRIA Privacy award 2019!

Selected publications

• Missed by Filter Lists: Detecting Unknown Third-Party Trackers with Invisible Pixels
  Imane Fouad, Nataliia Bielova, Arnaud Legout, Natasa Sarafijanovic-Djukic.
  To appear in Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2020).
  
  
• Browser Fingerprinting: A survey.
  Pierre Laperdrix, Nataliia Bielova, Benoit Baudry and Gildas Avoine.
  Under (non double-blind) submission, available on arXiv, 2019.
  
  
• Security Analysis of Subject Access Request Procedures.
  Coline Boniface, Imane Fouad, Nataliia Bielova, Cédric Lauradoux, and Cristiana Santos.
  Annual Privacy Forum (APF 2019).
  
  
• To Extend or not to Extend: on the Uniqueness of Browser Extensions and Web Logins
  Gábor György Gulyás, Dolière Francis Somé, Nataliia Bielova and Claude Castelluccia.
  Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2018) at ACM CCS 2018.
  Media coverage: CNIL, TheRegister.co.uk, and DCloudNews.
  
  
• Control What You Include! Server-Side Protection against Third Party Web Tracking
  Dolière Francis Somé, Nataliia Bielova and Tamara Rezk.
  International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (EssoS 2017).
  
  
• ... full list of publications

Projects

Current research projects

• ANR JCJC PrivaWeb Privacy Protection and ePrivacy Compliance for Web Users (2018-2022, scientific coordinator)
• Inria DATA4US Personal DAta TrAnsparency for web USers (2020-2022, scientific coordinator)
• BPI ANSWER Advanced aNd Secured Web Experience and seaRch (2018-2020)

Past projects

• ANR CISC Analyses of JavaScript Applications: Certification and Security (2014-2019)
• Inria Action Marquante User discrimination on the Web: measurement, causation and prevention (2016-2017, co-PI)

Recent activities

Award Commitee

• CNIL-INRIA Privacy Award 2020, co-chair with François Pellegrini.

Program Committee member

• TheWeb 2020, Security and Privacy Track of TheWeb Conference.
• PETs 2020, Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium.
• PETs 2019, Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium.
• IEEE SecDev 2019, IEEE Secure Development Conference.
• IEEE EuroS&P 2019, IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy.
• MADWeb 2019, NDSS Workshop on Measurements, Attacks, and Defenses for the Web.
• POST 2018, International Conference on Principles of Security and Trust.
• IEEE SecDev 2018, IEEE Secure Development Conference.
• eCrime 2018, Symposium on Electronic Crime Research.
• ProWeb 2018, International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web.
• CLaw 2018, IEEE Workshop on Legal and Technical Issues in Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things.
• ... full list of service