These are the slides of a Lightening Talk I will be giving at Chaos Communication Congress at the end of Dec 2013. Speakers not can be read here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gmBd11DBEYW-Hka6c74C4uKTvyyo5sF7DmtPdvoYnzY/edit?usp=sharing

1. Online Footprints
An Experiment in Privacy

2. “The web is fundamentally a distributed hypermedia
application”
Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory and Practice
Taylor, Medividovic, Dashofy (2010)

3. “When you're in positions of privileged access like a systems administrator for
the sort of intelligence community agencies, you're exposed to a lot more
information on a broader scale then the average employee and because of that
you see things that may be disturbing but over the course of a normal person's
career you'd only see one or two of these instances. When you see everything
you see them on a more frequent basis and you recognize that some of these
things are actually abuses. And when you talk to people about them in a place
like this where this is the normal state of business people tend not to take them
very seriously and move on from them.”
Edward Snowden

4. User identification and tracking is at the base of the technologies at the core of
communication networks in general.
In theory any adversary capable of intercepting messages travelling through the
network may ascertain who is communicating with whom and therefore may
track user activity.

5. Identity is a puzzle

6. Hyperdata
It is not a buzz word.
Hyperdata is at the core of the web nowadays.
Hyperdata means snippets of information linked between
each others.

7. Why is it relevant to privacy?
Because links are context.
Privacy protection means knowing which are the weakest
links that can reveal our puzzle.

8. Thank you!
Please talk to me, I’d love to exchange some thoughts and doubts.