Anastasia Shuba

Privacy Engineer

DuckDuckGo

Biography

I am a Senior Privacy Engineer at DuckDuckGo and I sometimes collaborate with academics on privacy research projects. If you are interested in a collaboration - please reach out. During my Ph.D, I was the lead developer in the AntMonitor and NoMoAds projects.

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Interests

Mobile Security and Privacy
Ad-blocking
Mobile Data Analytics

Education

Ph.D in Computer Engineering, 2019

University of California, Irvine
M.S. in Computer Engineering, 2016

University of California, Irvine
B.S. in Computer Engineering, 2014

University of California, Irvine

Recent News

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May 2025: In collaboration with University of California, Davis and Maastricht University, our paper, “Google’s Chrome Antitrust Paradox” was accepted to the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law.

May 2022: Started working at DuckDuckGo!

Apr. 2022: In collaboration with University of Oxford, our paper, “Goodbye Tracking? Impact of iOS App Tracking Transparency and Privacy Labels” was accepted to FAccT 2022.

Feb. 2022: New blog post, “Intro to TensorFlow” is out!

Jan. 2022: Gave a talk at the UC Irvine BOLD Program on how martial arts training has helped me succeed in both industry and academia.

Recent Publications

Shaoor Munir, Konrad Kollnig, Anastasia Shuba, Zubair Shafiq (2025). Google’s Chrome Antitrust Paradox. Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law.

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Rahmadi Trimananda, Hieu Le, Hao Cui, Janice Tran Ho, Anastasia Shuba, Athina Markopoulou (2022). OVRSeen: Auditing Network Traffic and Privacy Policies in Oculus VR. In USENIX Security.

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Konrad Kollnig, Anastasia Shuba, Reuben Binns, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt (2022). Are iPhones Really Better for Privacy? A Comparative Study of iOS and Android App. In PoPETs.

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Konrad Kollnig, Anastasia Shuba, Max Van Kleek, Reuben Binns, Nigel Shadbolt (2022). Goodbye Tracking? Impact of iOS App Tracking Transparency and Privacy Labels. In ACM FAccT.

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