Your DRM Can Watch You Too: Exploring the Privacy Implications of Browsers (mis)Implementations of Widevine EME. (arXiv:2308.05416v1 [cs.CR])

Thanks to HTML5, users can now view videos on Web browsers without installing
plug-ins or relying on specific devices. In 2017, W3C published Encrypted Media
Extensions (EME) as the first official Web standard for Digital Rights
Management (DRM), with the overarching goal of allowing seamless integration of
DRM systems on browsers. EME has prompted numerous voices of dissent with
respect to the inadequate protection of users. Of particular interest, privacy
concerns were articulated, especially that DRM systems inherently require
uniquely …

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