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Annals of Telecommunications
Erschienen in: Annals of Telecommunications 1-2/2014

01.02.2014

On the uniqueness of Web browsing history patterns

verfasst von: Lukasz Olejnik, Claude Castelluccia, Artur Janc

Erschienen in: Annals of Telecommunications | Ausgabe 1-2/2014

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Abstract

We present the results of the first large-scale study of the uniqueness of Web browsing histories, gathered from a total of 368,284 Internet users who visited a history detection demonstration website. Our results show that for a majority of users (69 %), the browsing history is unique and that users for whom we could detect at least four visited websites were uniquely identified by their histories in 97 % of cases. We observe a significant rate of stability in browser history fingerprints: for repeat visitors, 38 % of fingerprints are identical over time, and differing ones were correlated with original history contents, indicating static browsing preferences (for history subvectors of size 50). We report a striking result that it is enough to test for a small number of pages in order to both enumerate users’ interests and perform an efficient and unique behavioral fingerprint; we show that testing 50 Web pages is enough to fingerprint 42 % of users in our database, increasing to 70 % with 500 Web pages.
Vorheriger Artikel A survey on addressing privacy together with quality of context for context management in the Internet of Things
Nächster Artikel Privacy concerns in assisted living technologies

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A preliminary version of this paper was presented at HotPETS 2012. However, HotPETS does not have proceedings and this work was not published yet. Among the main differences are the inclusion of Fig. 10 and related discussion in Section 5.1.2.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
On the uniqueness of Web browsing history patterns
verfasst von
Lukasz Olejnik
Claude Castelluccia
Artur Janc
Publikationsdatum
01.02.2014
Verlag
Springer Paris
Erschienen in
Annals of Telecommunications / Ausgabe 1-2/2014
Print ISSN: 0003-4347
Elektronische ISSN: 1958-9395
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-013-0392-5

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