• DocumentCode
    568901
  • Title

    Anonymity over the internet (WIP)

  • Author

    Balogh, Zoltán

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Corvinus Univ. of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    18-20 June 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    7
  • Abstract
    The overall objective of the project is to find the reason why social networking sites are eagerly creating free widgets that can be embedded to any website. Apparently these widgets are free, but it has already been proven that these small applications´ purpose is to collect data of the visitors and help social networking sites to create a better profile of their users. This paper contains the base of a current research on what information is available of the website visitors and how social sites can use this data.
  • Keywords
    Internet; social networking (online); Internet; WIP; Web site visitors; anonymity; social networking sites; Abstracts; Geology; Facebook; anonymity; browser fingerprint; social sites; tracking;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE), 2012 18th International ICE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Munich
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2273-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2274-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICE.2012.6297670
  • Filename
    6297670