Privacy Leakage on the Web Prof. Craig Wills WPI Department of Computer Science Friday, September 19 11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. Fuller Labs 320 ABSTRACT: This talk examines privacy implications for user information and actions on the Web. We examine how information related to individual users is aggregated as a result of browsing seemingly unrelated Web sites. We examine the privacy diffusion on the Internet, hidden transactions, and the potential for a few sites to be able to construct a profile of individual users. We go on to examine the effectiveness of specific techniques to limit this diffusion of private information to third parties. We finish with an examination of information sharing and privacy leakage for popular Online Social Networks. _____ Craig Wills is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His primary research focus is Internet application performance and measurement, including issues related to privacy. General interests are distributed computing, networking, and user interfaces. Host: Prof. Micha Hofri Refreshments will be served