Section: New Results

Security or privacy ?

Participants : Amrit Kumar, Cédric Lauradoux.

Security softwares such as anti-viruses, IDS or filters help Internet users to protect their privacy from hackers. The cost of this protection is that the users privacy is stripped away by the companies providing these security solutions. Currently, Internet users can choose between no security with the risk of being hacked or use security softwares and lose all personal data to security companies. As a example of this dilemma, we analyze the solution proposed by Google for Safe Browsing in [29] and shows that their privacy policies do not match the reality: Google can perform tracking.