Cloak and swagger: Understanding data sensitivity through the lens of user anonymity

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 493-508

  Peddinti, Sai Teja ^a   Korolova, Aleksandra ^b   Bursztein, Elie ^b   Sampemane, Geetanjali ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT; BEHAVIORAL DATA; LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; PRODUCT FEATURE; THROUGH THE LENS; USER ANONYMITY;

MACHINE LEARNING;

EID: 84914169536     PISSN: 10816011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SP.2014.38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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