"I know what you did last summer" - Query logs and user privacy

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 909-913

  Jones, Rosie ^a   Kumar, Ravi ^a   Pang, Bo ^a   Tomkins, Andrew ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

anonymity; Privacy; Query log analysis

Indexed keywords

PERSONAL INFORMATIONS; PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATIONS; PRIVACY; PRIVACY RISKS; QUERY LOG ANALYSIS; REAL-WORLD; USER IDENTITIES; USER PRIVACIES; WEB SEARCH QUERIES;

CLASSIFIERS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 63449090629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1321440.1321573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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