Johnny Still Can't Opt-out: Assessing the IAB CCPA Compliance Framework

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Code and Data

As a service to the community, we make the code and datasets from this study available to the public. Interested researchers can download them here.

This archive contains all the data collected from our four crawls (Crawl 1, Crawl 2, Crawl 3, and Crawl 4) that appeared in our paper. The most important data consists of usprivacy cookies, USP API instrumentation, and inclusion chains of all HTTP requests (with their sources , destinations, and if they consist of consent parameter). To use the dataset with the scripts that generated the figures and tables, please refer to this repository.

Citation

If you use this dataset, we ask that you please cite our paper as follows:

@article{ aziz-2024-pets,
    author = "Muhammad Abu Bakar Aziz and Christo Wilson",
    title = {{Johnny Still Can't Opt-out: Assessing the IAB CCPA Compliance Framework}},
    booktitle = {{Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS)}},
    volume = "2024",
    number = "4",
    month = "July",
    year = "2024""
}