acumen

Browser cookies are an important privacy problem. Websites use cookies to identify individual website visitors, store preferences, and record what webpages each visitor is viewing.

Th Acumen system helps people manage their cookies by showing them how other people in their community are managing their cookies. People can use this information to help them make informed decisions when managing their cookies.

For instance, if most people block cookies from a particular website, it may be because the site uses cookies in a harmful way. Knowing that others have blocked the site's cookies, a user can make a more informed decision - and likely block the site's cookies as well.

Acumen helps people find potentially bad cookies, learn about cookies, and decide whether to block or allow particular cookies.

 

people
Jeremy Goecks [jeremy@cc.gatech.edu]
Elizabeth Mynatt [mynatt@cc.gatech.edu]

 

funding

 

publications
J. Goecks and E.D. Mynatt. Supporting Privacy Management via Community Experience and ExpertiseProceedings of 2005 Conference on Communities and Technology, p. 397-418. (pdf)

J. Goecks and E.D. Mynatt. Social Approaches to End-User Privacy Management. In Ed. L. Cranor and S. Garfinkel, Designing Secure Systems That People Can Use. O'Reilly (2005).