Disclosing users' data in an environment that preserves privacy

Privacy protection without impairing personalization by using the extended system MASKS and the extended contextualized P3P privacy policies

“…Its objective is to allow some personalization, even without the user identification. The system presents some important privacy characteristics, it is efficient and adaptable, it avoids the user data storage, it makes flexible the amount of information that user desires to disclose, it accepts cookies and it does not need modifications in the existent communication protocols [18].…”

“…This anonymity is viable because large portion of navigation is summed up in searches and visualization of documents, without the explicit information exchange with Web sites [18]. Besides, data sent by the user does not cause impair to his/her privacy, since the explicit information acquisition is known and consented.…”

“…PSA is a plug-in added to browser acting as a system configuration and as an user access interface, allowing him/her to be informed about his/her masks and to alter them [18]. It removes data from HTTP requested headers and, according to user, redirects the browser communication traffic to the proxy.…”

“…It removes data from HTTP requested headers and, according to user, redirects the browser communication traffic to the proxy. Figure 2 presents the system architecture and possible situations that a requisition can be masked [18]. MASKS server provides privacy by the exchange of IP of all HTTP requisition that passes through it by the masking process with cookies insertion.…”

“…A group designation process must be effective and semantically significant. Designated requisitions for a group need to be lead to same subject pages [18]. Thus, the URL analysis and group choice consists in to select previously the group from the semantic tree that indexes the URL.…”