Experiences running a Web anonymising service

Author

Golembiewski, Claudia ; Hansen, Marit ; Steinbrecher, Sandra

Author_Institution

Unabhangiges Landeszentrum fur Datenschutz, Kiel, Germany

fYear

2003

fDate

1-5 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

482

Lastpage

486

Abstract

The research project "AN.ON - Anonymity online" focuses on developing and providing a Web anonymising service. This service provides anonymity and unobservability against external observers, the user\´s ISP and the operators of the service themselves. AN.ON is being promoted by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs for three years (2001-2003). Main criteria for the design of the Web anonymising service are security, trustworthiness, performance and usability. Of utmost importance is legal compliance, especially with respect to data protection law. In the submitted paper the project partners, Dresden University of Technology resp. Freie Universitat Berlin and Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, describe technical background, legal topics, economic issues, socio-political side effects and practical experiences in developing and operating this Web anonymising service.

Keywords

Internet; data privacy; legislation; security of data; socio-economic effects; ISP; Internet service provider; Web anonymising service; Web security; Web usability; data protection law; economic issues; legal compliance; online anonymity; socio-political side effects; trustworthiness; Advertising; Data security; Law; Legal factors; Open source software; Privacy; Protection; Usability; Web and internet services; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2003. Proceedings. 14th International Workshop on

ISSN

1529-4188

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1993-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.2003.1232070

Filename

1232070