Flash cookies and privacy

AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn SS-10-05, Issue , 2010, Pages 158-163

  Soltani, Ashkan ^a   Canty, Shannon ^b   Mayo, Quentin ^b   Thomas, Lauren ^b   Hoofnagle, Chris Jay ^c  

^a UC Berkeley School of Information   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WEBSITES;

GOVERNMENT WEBSITES; PILOT STUDIES; PRIVACY POLICIES; PRIVACY PREFERENCES; USER CONTROL;

HTTP;

EID: 77957951141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (11)

1. Shannon Canty is a senior at Clemson University majoring in bioengineering.
2. Quentin Mayo is a senior at Jacksonville State University majoring in computer science.
3. Lauren Thomas is a senior at Louisiana State University majoring in industrial engineering.
4. M. Abraham, C. Meierhoefer, and & A. Lipsman, "The Impact of Cookie Deletion on the Accuracy of Site-Server and Ad-Server Metrics: An Empirical Comscore Study," 2007, available at http://www.comscore.com/ Press-Events/Presentations-Wnitepapers/2007/Cookie-Deletion-Whitepaper.
5. United Virtualities, "United Virtualities develops ID backup to cookies, Browser-Based 'Persistent Identification Element' will also restore erased cookie, Mar. 31, 2005, available at http://www.unitedvirtualities.com/UV- Pressrelease03-31-05.htm.
6. Antone Gonslaves, "Company bypasses cookie-deleting consumers, March 31, 2005, available at http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/privacy/ showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160400801.
7. J. Lott, D. Schall, and K. Peters, Actionscript 3.0 Cookbook, O'Reilly, 2006, p. 410.
8. Adobe, Flash Settings Manager, available at http://www.macromedia.com/ support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings-manager.html
9. NAI, About the NAI, available at http://www.networkadvertising.org/about/ .
10. The White House, Our Online Privacy Policy, n.d., available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/privacy/
11. Stone, Brad. "Adobe's Flash and Apple's Safari Fail a Privacy Test." Technology - Bits Blog NYTimes.com. 30 Dec. 2008. 23 June 2009 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/adobes-flash-and-apples-safari-fail-a- privacy-test