Title :
Anonymity over the internet (WIP)
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Corvinus Univ. of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ICE.2012.6297670
