This article provides a quantitative analysis of privacy-compromising mechanisms on 1
million popular websites. Findings indicate that nearly 9 in 10 websites leak user data to …

Web tracking is a commonly-used practice on the Internet devoted to retrieve user
information for activities such as personalization or advertisement. These techniques are …

Concern for privacy when users are surfing on the Web has increased recently. Nowadays,
many users are aware that when they are accessing Web sites, these Web sites can track …

A dominant regulatory model for web privacy is" notice and choice". In this model, users are
notified of data collection and provided with options to control it. To examine the efficacy of …

Modern web applications are built on a tangle of technologies that have been developed
over time and then haphazardly pieced together. Every piece of the web application stack …

Web cookies have been the subject of many research studies over the last few years.
However, most existing research does not consider multiple crucial perspectives that can …

Abstract “Tracking” is the collection of data about an individual's activity across multiple
distinct contexts and the retention, use, or sharing of data derived from that activity outside …

We study a market for private data in which a data analyst publicly releases a statistic over a
database of private information. Individuals that own the data incur a cost for their loss of …

The recent spread of everyday-carried Wi-Fi-enabled devices (smartphones, tablets and
wearable devices) comes with a privacy threat to their owner, and to society as a whole …

Web search engines (eg, Google, Bing, Qwant, and DuckDuckGo) may process a myriad of
search queries per second. According to Internet Live Stats, Google handles more than two …