4 papers
On Web User Tracking: How Third-Party Http Requests Track Users' Browsing Patterns for Personalised Advertising
Silvia Puglisi, David Rebollo-Monedero, Jordi Forné
On today's Web, users trade access to their private data for content and services. Advertising sustains the business model of many websites and applications. Efficient and successf…
On Content-Based Recommendation and User Privacy in Social-Tagging Systems
Silvia Puglisi, Javier Parra-Arnau, Jordi Forné +1
Recommendation systems and content filtering approaches based on annotations and ratings, essentially rely on users expressing their preferences and interests through their actions…
You never surf alone. Ubiquitous tracking of users' browsing habits
Silvia Puglisi, David Rebollo-Monedero, Jordi Forné
In the early age of the internet users enjoyed a large level of anonymity. At the time web pages were just hypertext documents; almost no personalisation of the user experience was…
Potential mass surveillance and privacy violations in proximity-based social applications
Silvia Puglisi, David Rebollo-Monedero, Jordi Forné
Proximity-based social applications let users interact with people that are currently close to them, by revealing some information about their preferences and whereabouts. This inf…