Several Pressing Problems in Hypertext Privacy
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Current technical discussions of Internet privacy are often discussions about the hypertext protocol stack and things that people are doing with it: HTTP, HTTPS, JavaScript, HTML5, Flash/Silverlight/JVM, social networking and (partially) geolocation. Although there are other subjects that probably deserve just as much attention — such as wireless protocols and mobile devices — this position paper will survey some of the serious unsolved privacy problems in the hypertext stack. In some cases, practical technical solutions may be available.
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