Many modern advertising techniques now implement tracking techniques to “watch” users in order to serve up relevant advertising. Although benign on the surface, this technique raises privacy concerns. This project is designed to facilitate automated data collection and processing from regular web browsing behavior in order to determine what data is being collected and derive what advertisers really know about their users.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Feeney, Andrew John
• Mancuso, Matthew P.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042413-095306

Advisor

• Wills, Craig E.

Year

• 2013

Date created

• 2013-04-24

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright