Sunlight: Fine-grained targeting detection at scale with statistical confidence

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn 2015-October, Issue , 2015, Pages 554-566

  Lecuyer, Mathias ^a   Spahn, Riley ^a   Spiliopoulos, Yannis ^a   Chaintreau, Augustin ^a   Geambasu, Roxana ^a   Hsu, Daniel ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Measurement; Privacy; Web transparency

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; DATA PRIVACY; MEASUREMENTS; SCALABILITY;

DISCRIMINATORY PRICING; HYPOTHESIS FORMATION; HYPOTHESIS GENERATION; PERSONAL INFORMATION; PERSONALIZED ADVERTISEMENTS; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS; STATISTICAL CONFIDENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

STATISTICS;

EID: 84954114007     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2810103.2813614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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