A Cartography of Web Tracking using DNS Records

doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2018.11.008

	A Cartography of Web Tracking using DNS Records
	Su, Jingxiu 1,2; Li, Zhenyu 1,2; Grumbach, Stephane 3; Ikram, Muhammad 4,5; Salamatian, Kave 6; Xie, Gaogang 1,2
	2019-01-15
发表期刊	COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS
ISSN	0140-3664
卷号	134 页码:83-95
摘要	Web tracking plays a crucial role in the Web ecosystem. It relies on third-party tracking actors collecting user information that are used for various applications such as advertisement and analytics, etc. With the massive growth of the Internet, understanding the geography of tracking is of strategic importance. The goal of this paper is to propose a thorough investigation of web tracking inside China taking advantage of a large dataset (10(11) records) containing two days of full DNS access from a major ISP providing both mobile and landline ADSL. Our results show that a strong Pareto principle applies on the traffic toward trackers, with only 26 trackers, representing 90% of tracking activity. We then show that although most first-party sites accessed from China are owned by Chinese corporations, large proportion of trackers belong to US ones. This raises concerns about the advertisement industry in China, and more generally shed new lights on the international data flows, the interdependency of the main actors, and the complexity of the threats for both people and states.
DOI	10.1016/j.comcom.2018.11.008
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Key R&D Program of China[2016YFE0133000] ; EU-China study on IoT ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[61572475] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[61602448]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science ; Engineering ; Telecommunications
WOS类目	Computer Science, Information Systems ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic ; Telecommunications
WOS记录号	WOS:000457951700008
出版者	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
引用统计	被引频次：4[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/3439
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Su, Jingxiu; Li, Zhenyu
作者单位	1.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.INRIA, Le Chesnay, France 4.Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA 5.Macquarie Univ, N Ryde, NSW, Australia 6.Univ Savoie Mt Blanc, LISTIC, Chambery, France
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Su, Jingxiu,Li, Zhenyu,Grumbach, Stephane,et al. A Cartography of Web Tracking using DNS Records[J]. COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS,2019,134:83-95.
APA	Su, Jingxiu,Li, Zhenyu,Grumbach, Stephane,Ikram, Muhammad,Salamatian, Kave,&Xie, Gaogang.(2019).A Cartography of Web Tracking using DNS Records.COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS,134,83-95.
MLA	Su, Jingxiu,et al."A Cartography of Web Tracking using DNS Records".COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS 134(2019):83-95.