CHI '26CorrespondingPrivacy by Design & User Control +2
Who am I Talking to? A Large-Scale Measurement of Surface Attribution Across Real-World Security and Privacy Interfaces
Modern user interfaces are complex composites, with elements originating from various sources, such as the operating system, apps, a web browser, or websites. We posit that security and privacy decisions can to some extent depend on users correctly identifying an element's source, a concept we term "surface attributio…