Tracking website data-collection and privacy practices with the iWatch Web Crawler

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Citeable URL: https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/defaults/w3763794w

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Creator	Jensen, Carlos Sarkar, Chandan Jensen, Christian Potts, Colin
Abstract	In this paper we introduce the iWatch web crawler, a tool designed to catalogue and analyze online data practices and the use of privacy related indicators and technologies. Our goal in developing iWatch was to make possible a new type of analysis of trends, the impact of legislation on practices, and geographic and social differences online. In this paper we present preliminary findings from two sets of data collected 15 months apart and analyzed with this tool. Our combined samples included more than 240,000 pages from over 24,000 domains and 47 different countries. In addition to providing useful and needed data on the state of online data practices, we show that iWatch is a promising approach to the study of the web ecosystem. Keywords: P3P, Web-crawling, End-user's privacy, Privacy, Privacy technologies in terms of geography, Webbugs, Cookies, Data-collection practices
Resource Type	Research Paper
Date Available	2007-12-18T15:27:40+00:00
Date Issued	2007-07-18
Citation	ACM
Rights Statement	Copyright Not Evaluated
Publisher	Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2007)
Language	English [eng]
File Format	application/pdf
File Extent	293144 bytes
Replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/1957/7416

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