CYCLOSA: Decentralizing Private Web Search Through SGX-Based Browser Extensions

By regularly querying Web search engines, users (unconsciously) disclose large amounts of their personal data as part of their search queries, among which some might reveal sensitive information (e.g. health issues, sexual, political or religious preferences). Several solutions exist to allow users querying search engines while improving privacy protection. However, these solutions suffer from a number of limitations: some are subject to user re-identification attacks, while others lack scalability or are unable to provide accurate results. This paper presents CYCLOSA, a secure, scalable and accurate private Web search solution. CYCLOSA improves security by relying on trusted execution environments (TEEs) as provided by Intel SGX. Further, CYCLOSA proposes a novel adaptive privacy protection solution that reduces the risk of user re- identification. CYCLOSA sends fake queries to the search engine and dynamically adapts their count according to the sensitivity of the user query. In addition, CYCLOSA meets scalability as it is fully decentralized, spreading the load for distributing fake queries among other nodes. Finally, CYCLOSA achieves accuracy of Web search as it handles the real query and the fake queries separately, in contrast to other existing solutions that mix fake and real query results

Survey on Privacy Preservation in Personalized Web Environment

Personalized web search (PWS) is a general category of search techniques aiming at providing different search results for different users or organize search results differently for each user, based upon their interest, preferences and information needs. As the expense, user information has to be collected and analyzed to figure out the user intention behind the issued query. However, users are uncomfortable with exposing private information during search which has become a major barrier for the wide proliferation of PWS. Search engines should provide security mechanism such that user will be ensured of its privacy and its information should be kept safe. Many personalization techniques are giving access to achieve personalization of user’s web search. Search engines can provide more accurate and specific data if users trust search engine and provide more information. But users should be ensured that their private information should be kept safe. In this paper we will discuss on different techniques on personalized web search and securing personalized information. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.16041

Survey on privacy preservation in personalized web environment

Personalized web search (PWS) is a general category of search techniques aiming at providing different search results for different users or organize search results differently for each user, based upon their interest, preferences and information needs. As the expense, user information has to be collected and analyzed to figure out the user intention behind the issued query. However, users are uncomfortable with exposing private information during search which has become a major barrier for the wide proliferation of PWS. Search engines should provide security mechanism such that user will be ensured of its privacy and its information should be kept safe. Many personalization techniques are giving access to achieve personalization of user’s web search. Search engines can provide more accurate and specific data if users trust search engine and provide more information. But users should be ensured that their private information should be kept safe. In this paper we will discuss on different techniques on personalized web search and securing personalized information. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.16040

Glendora Country Club

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An app for personal searches:more-private, non-volatile searches with stigmergic inspiration

Web searching has long become a ubiquitous behavior amongst Internet users. Much has been changing: odds are that the thousands of results of yesterday have become millions of results today, but did that significant jump in quantity translate to an increase in the perceived results' quality and their applications? Some users might feel personalization efforts as stereotypification or even as inaccurate biases; they may also beware that every click on every search result may reinforce and contribute to (in)accurate representation of them - and would prefer searching without tracking. "Personal Searcher" is a work-in-progress app that makes it possible to search more anonymously. It also makes it possible to keep a private local-only history of one's searches and build personal ranking systems based on that history and other data. The goal is to benefit from local offline personalization, but search online as anonymously as possible.N/

US government information: selected current issues in public access vs. private competition

Web information systems are having a profound effect on the way information is being disseminated today. Current technological advances have caused many government agencies to re-evaluate their practice of contracting with private sector vendors who have traditionally repackaged and marketed the agency\u27s raw data. These new opportunities for government agencies wishing to make information publicly accessible have blurred the traditional distinctions between public and private dissemination activities. Low-cost public dissemination of information has resulted in private sector vendors arguing that public electronic distribution and publication creates unfair competition. New partnerships, such as the recent venture between the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) and the commercial search engine, Northern Light, in developing the ``usgovsearch\u27\u27 product are also being explored. From another viewpoint, library associations are strongly supporting legislation that would broaden,strengthen, and enhance public access to electronic government information. Key issues to be discussed are: (1) the debate concerning public vs. private access to government information; (2) Does electronic access to government information eliminate the need for printed documents? and (3) Joint efforts -- when should the government team up with private sector allies to charge for information services and access