Research on security of third-party tracking

Abstract

Third-party tracking can record users' behaviors across many websites.Increasing attention has been paid to the area of third-party tracking due to the fact that user's privacy protection is causing wider concern.The basic concept and present development were introduced.And security risks were also summarized.Then main technology of third-party tracking was intrduced from stateful tracking and stateless tracking aspects.Furthermore,several existing defenses of third-party tracking were described and compared.Finally,some hot research topics were given and the future research directions were discussed.

Keywords

• information security;privacy;third-party tracking;Web