A self-adaptive classification for the dissociating privacy agent

Marc Juarez, Vicenc Torra
2013 2013 Eleventh Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust  
This paper describes an extension of the Dissociating Privacy Agent (DisPA), which is a Privacy Enhancement Technology (PET) for web search. It is implemented as an addon for Firefox that acts like a proxy between the user and the search engine. A fundamental part of DisPA is the classification of queries into a set of categories. Particularly, the taxonomy of the Open Directory Project (ODP) is used for this purpose. In this paper we briefly recall the internal operations of the agent, discuss
more » ... the drawbacks of the current model and propose an improvement to overcome them.
doi:10.1109/pst.2013.6596035 dblp:conf/pst/JurezT13 fatcat:jn4xpa5f2bh3di7wycl6zfck64