Zubair Shafiq

Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Davis
Office: 3043 Kemper Hall
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Research Interests

My research focuses on making the web private, secure, and safe.

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Recent Publications

• Understanding Data Collection, Brokerage, and Spam in the Lead Marketing Ecosystem
  IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2026 (S&P), 2026.
  Also at the FTC Conference on Marketing and Public Policy, 2026

• PixelConfig: Longitudinal Measurement and Reverse-Engineering of Meta Pixel Configurations
  ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2026.
  

• Towards Multi-Stakeholder Vulnerability Notifications in the Ad-Tech Supply Chain
  IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2026 (EuroS&P), 2026.
  

• The Hypocrisy of Data Governance
  Yale Journal of Law and Technology (YJoLT), Volume 28.