Criteria and Analysis for Human-Centered Browser Fingerprinting Countermeasures

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dc.contributor.authorAndalibi, Vafa
dc.contributor.authorSadeqi Azer, Erfan
dc.contributor.authorCamp, L. Jean
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-24T18:29:36Z
dc.date.available2021-12-24T18:29:36Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-04
dc.description.abstractBrowser fingerprinting is a surveillance technique that uses browser and device attributes to track visitors across the web. Defeating fingerprinting requires blocking attribute information or spoofing attributes, which can result in loss of functionality. To address the challenge of escaping surveillance while obtaining functionality, we identify six design criteria for an ideal spoofing system. We present three fingerprint generation algorithms as well as a baseline algorithm that simply samples a dataset of fingerprints. For each algorithm, we identify trade-offs among the criteria: distinguishability from a non-spoofed fingerprint, uniqueness, size of the anonymity set, efficient generation, loss of web functionality, and whether or not the algorithm protects the confidentiality of the underlying dataset. We report on a series of experiments illustrating that the use of our partially-dependent algorithm for spoofing fingerprints will avoid detection by Machine Learning approaches to surveillance.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2022.915
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-5-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/80257
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectCyber Systems: Their Science, Engineering, and Security
dc.subjectbrowser fingerprinting
dc.subjectclient fingerprinting
dc.subjectend-user privacy protection
dc.subjectfingerprinting defenses
dc.subjectinternet privacy
dc.titleCriteria and Analysis for Human-Centered Browser Fingerprinting Countermeasures
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