A survey of query log privacy-enhancing techniques from a policy perspective

ACM Transactions on the Web

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Cooper, Alissa ^a,b  

^a Center for Democracy and Technology

^b Center for Democracy and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Log; Policy; Privacy; Query; Search

Indexed keywords

LOG; POLICY; PRIVACY; QUERY; SEARCH;

SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 55149118992     PISSN: 15591131     EISSN: 1559114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1409220.1409222     Document Type: Article

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