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  • Behavioral Science

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  • Online privacy concerns are growing.
  • Understanding the uniqueness of web browsing behavior is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine if web browsing behavior can uniquely identify individuals.
  • To assess the stability and re-identifiability of browsing data.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of web browsing traces.
  • Identification of individuals based on visited web domains.

Main Results:

  • The top four most visited web domains were sufficient to identify 95% of individuals.
  • 80% of individuals could be re-identified within contiguous time slices of data.
  • Web browsing behavior provides a stable and unique digital fingerprint.

Conclusions:

  • Basic online habits, like frequently visited sites, are highly unique.
  • Limited browsing data poses a significant privacy threat.
  • Existing concerns about online privacy are reinforced by these findings.