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SUMMARY:Examining Region-Specific Third-Party Web Tracking Services  - Ham
 ed Haddadi (Queen Mary University of London)
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:Today’s web has a huge\, diverse ecosystem of third-party we
 bsites collecting information about users and providing them with content 
 such as targeted advertisements. In this paper we study this ecosystem of 
 third-party websites. We sample every continent\, targeting the 500 most p
 opular websites in different countries in the world. This allows us to con
 trast the commonplace\, western-dominated views of the web with less studi
 ed countries. We find thousands of third-party websites\, reflecting the d
 iversity of services and types of application/content they involve\, e.g.\
 , advertisement\, ad trackers\, CDNs\, news\, sport\, and pornography. We 
 find those third-party websites offering ad tracking services to be the mo
 st prevalent. We then focus on solutions for individuals to regain control
  of their personal data.\n\nBio: Hamed is the Lecturer in Digital Media at
  EECS School in Queen Mary University of London and a Research Scientist a
 t Qatar Computing Research Institute. He is interested in Networked System
 s & Social Computing. He enjoys designing and building systems that enable
  better use of our digital footprint\, while respecting users' privacy. He
  is also broadly interested in sensing applications and Human-Data Interac
 tion. He is currently serving as the Information Services Director for the
  ACM SIGCOMM Executive Committee.\n
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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