As a follow up to characterizing traffic deemed as unwanted by Web clients such as advertisements, we examine how information related to individual users is aggregated as a result...
While Internet users claim to be concerned about online privacy, their behavior rarely reflects those concerns. In this paper we investigate whether the availability of compariso...
Julia Gideon, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Serge Egelman, ...
In order to address privacy concerns, many social media websites allow users to hide their personal profiles from the public. In this work, we show how an adversary can exploit an...
This paper examines how service providers may resolve the trade-off between their personalization efforts and users' individual privacy concerns. We analyze how negotiation te...
—Social networking sites, such as MySpace, Facebook and Flickr, are gaining more and more popularity among Internet users. As users are enjoying this new style of networking, pri...