Browsing behavior exposes identities on the Web
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| author | Oliveira, Marcos Yang, Junran Griffiths, Daniel Bonnay, Denis Kulshrestha, Juhi |
| author_facet | Oliveira, Marcos Yang, Junran Griffiths, Daniel Bonnay, Denis Kulshrestha, Juhi |
| contents | How easy is it to uniquely identify a person based solely on their web browsing behavior? Here we show that when people navigate the Web, their online traces produce fingerprints that identify them. Merely the four most visited web domains are enough to identify 95% of the individuals. These digital fingerprints are stable and render high re-identifiability. We demonstrate that we can re-identify 80% of the individuals in separate time slices of data. Such a privacy threat persists even with limited information about individuals' browsing behavior, reinforcing existing concerns around online privacy. |
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| spellingShingle | Browsing behavior exposes identities on the Web Oliveira, Marcos Yang, Junran Griffiths, Daniel Bonnay, Denis Kulshrestha, Juhi Computers and Society Information Retrieval Social and Information Networks Physics and Society Applications How easy is it to uniquely identify a person based solely on their web browsing behavior? Here we show that when people navigate the Web, their online traces produce fingerprints that identify them. Merely the four most visited web domains are enough to identify 95% of the individuals. These digital fingerprints are stable and render high re-identifiability. We demonstrate that we can re-identify 80% of the individuals in separate time slices of data. Such a privacy threat persists even with limited information about individuals' browsing behavior, reinforcing existing concerns around online privacy. |
| title | Browsing behavior exposes identities on the Web |
| topic | Computers and Society Information Retrieval Social and Information Networks Physics and Society Applications |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15489 |