WatchTheWatchers: A Web Privacy Monitor
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We present a system, WatchTheWatchers or wtw, that enables a web user to monitor how much information web servers and other entities might be able to collect and store about her. It accomplishes this by examining and storing cookies, form data, and request patterns. Here we present a design and describe the current partial implementation.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002