{"id":646,"date":"2006-08-23T15:46:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T12:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/index.php\/?p=646"},"modified":"2006-08-23T15:46:02","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T12:46:02","slug":"trackmenot-protection-against-surveillance-and-data-profiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2006\/08\/23\/trackmenot-protection-against-surveillance-and-data-profiling\/","title":{"rendered":"TrackMeNot: protection against surveillance and data-profiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;<i><b>TrackMeNot<\/b><\/i> is a browser extension that protects web-searchers against surveillance and data-profiling. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one&#8217;s trail), but instead, paradoxically, by the opposite strategy: noise and obfuscation.&nbsp;[&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><i>TrackMeNot<\/i> runs in Firefox as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and MSN. It hides users&#8217; actual search trails in a cloud of indistinguishable &#8216;ghost&#8217; queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data into accurate or identifying user profiles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~dhowe\/TrackMeNot\/\">D.C. Howe<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/knuttz.net\/2006\/08\/21\/links-for-08212006\/\">via Knuttz&#8217;s<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;TrackMeNot is a browser extension that protects web-searchers against surveillance and data-profiling. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one&#8217;s trail), but instead, paradoxically, by the opposite strategy: noise and obfuscation.&nbsp;[&hellip;] TrackMeNot runs in Firefox as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,28],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-innovation","tag-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}