DisPA: An Intelligent Agent for Private Web Search

Marc Juarez, Vicenç Torra

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Abstract

Search queries can be used to infer preferences and interests of users. While search engines use this information for, among others, targeted advertising and personalization, these tasks can violate user's privacy. In 2006, after AOL disclosed the search queries of 650,000 users and some of them were re-identified, many Privacy Enhancement Technologies (PETs) have sought to solve this problem. The Dissociating Privacy Agent (DisPA), is a browser extension that acts as a proxy between the user and the search engine and semantically dissociates queries on real time. We show that DisPA increases the privacy of the user and hinders re-identification. We also propose an algorithm to measure and evaluate the privacy properties offered by DisPA.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvanced Research in Data Privacy
EditorsGuillermo Navarro-Arribas, Vicenç Torra
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Chapter7.2
Pages389-405
Number of pages17
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-09885-2
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-09884-5, 978-3-319-35991-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Publication series

NameStudies in Computational Intelligence
PublisherSpringer International Publishing Switzerland
Volume567
ISSN (Print)1860-949X
ISSN (Electronic)1860-9503

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