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Detecting Web Bugs with Bugnosis: Privacy Advocacy through Education

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Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET 2002)

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This article is a case study in the design, implementation, and deployment of the Bugnosis privacy enhancing tool. Downloaded and installed by over 100,000 users to date, Bugnosis contributes to network privacy indirectly — without any technical protection measures such as filtering or anonymization — by raising awareness about Web bugs and arming users with specific information about current Web site practices.

This work was supported by the Privacy Foundation, the University of Denver, and Boston University. Most of this work was done at the University of Denver Computer Science Department.

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  1. Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, The Institute of Banking, Saudi Arabia

    Adil Alsaid

  2. Computer Science Department, Boston University, USA

    David Martin

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  1. The Free Haven Project, 144 Lake St., Arlington, MA, 02474, USA

    Roger Dingledine

  2. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375, USA

    Paul Syverson

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Alsaid, A., Martin, D. (2003). Detecting Web Bugs with Bugnosis: Privacy Advocacy through Education. In: Dingledine, R., Syverson, P. (eds) Privacy Enhancing Technologies. PET 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2482. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36467-6_2

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