公开(公告)号：US20170142158A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-18

申请号：US14942319

申请日：2015-11-16

Applicant: Telefonica, S.A.

Inventor： Nikolaos LAOUTARIS ,  Jeremy BLACKBURN

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08

CPC classification number: H04L63/20 ,  H04L63/0281 ,  H04L63/0407 ,  H04L63/10 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/22 ,  H04L67/306

Abstract: A method, a device and computer program products for protecting privacy of users from web-trackersThe method comprising: capturing and removing a public unique identifier set by a Website (300) in a computing device (100D) of a user (100); monitoring, during a first time-period, web-requests the user (100) makes to obtain a web-behavioral profile of the user (300), and storing the obtained web-behavioral profile as a first vector; tracking, during a second time-period, the web-requests to examine the effect each web-request has on assisting the de-anonymization of the user (100), obtaining a second vector; classifying, the obtained second vector taking into account a computed similarity score parameter; creating and mapping, a corresponding private unique identifier for said captured public identifier; and executing, based on said mapping between the private and the public unique identifiers, an intervention algorithm for said web-tracker, that considers a configured intervention policy.