Privacy in Danger: Let's Google Your Privacy
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Protection of personal data is a requirement from both ethical and legal perspectives. In the Internet, search engines facilitate our lives by finding any searched information within a single-click time. On the other hand, they threaten our privacy by revealing our personal data to others. In this paper, we give concrete examples of Google personal data exploits against user privacy, discuss the countermeasures to protect our privacy and introduce a penetration testing tool called TrackingDog checking and reporting privacy exploits over Google.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007