Content Cloaking: Preserving Privacy with Google Docs and other Web Applications

Gabriele d'Angelo (1) , Fabio Vitali (1) , Stefano Zacchiroli (2)

1 DISI - Department of Computer Science and Engineering [Bologna]
2 PPS - Preuves, Programmes et Systèmes

Web office suites such as Google Docs offer unparalleled collaboration experiences in terms of low software requirements, ease of use, data ubiquity, and availability. When the data holder (Google, Microsoft, etc.) is not perceived as trusted though, those benefits are considered at stake with important privacy requirements. Content cloaking is a lightweight, cryptographic, client-side solution to protect content from data holders while using web office suites and other "Web 2.0", AJAX-based, collaborative applications.

Keywords: privacy; Web 2.0; Google Docs; AJAX

Domains: Web

Gabriele d'Angelo, Fabio Vitali, Stefano Zacchiroli. Content Cloaking: Preserving Privacy with Google Docs and other Web Applications. 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2010), Mar 2010, Sierre, Switzerland. pp.826-830. ⟨hal-00520163⟩