Title :
TTPCookie: Flexible Third-Party Cookie Management for Increasing Online Privacy
Author :
Javed, Azhar ; Merz, Christian ; Schwenk, Joerg
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Network & Data Security, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Abstract :
This paper deals with the problem of privacy issues caused by the tracking activities of web advertisers. Web advertisers place cookies in the browser to track users´ surfing behaviour across websites, mostly without his knowledge or consent. This paper proposes a fine-grained, per-site cookie management protocol. We implement our proposal as Mozilla Firefox add-on and we call it TTPCookie. We evaluate the add-on on a data-set obtained from automated visits of 5000 websites. Further, Mozilla Firefox add-ons and other related proposals dealing with cookies and privacy are analysed and compared.
Keywords :
data privacy; online front-ends; Mozilla Firefox add-on; TTPCookie; Web advertisers; fine-grained protocol; flexible third-party cookie management; online privacy; per-site cookie management protocol; tracking activities; user surfing behaviour tracking; Browsers; Data collection; Data privacy; Databases; Privacy; Proposals; Web pages;
Conference_Titel :
Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2014 IEEE 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
DOI :
10.1109/TrustCom.2014.9
