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Expand Up @@ -249,6 +249,22 @@ This occurs if a site can determine with high probability that a visit to that
site comes from the same user as another visit to a *different* site. This
threat is discussed in [[#model-cross-site-recognition]].

## Profile building ## {#hl-profile-building}

This is a kind of [=surveillance=] and [=correlation=], which can lead to
[=disclosure=].

Even within a single site, information about what links a user clicked, or where
on the page they were looking, can reveal interesting things about that user. At
the same time, when aggregated, this information can be used to improve websites
and to help them get paid for the ads users see.

Across sites, each site might want to know how users behave on other sites even
if they can't get a full user ID from the other site as desired by
[[#hl-recognition-cross-site]]. For example, a shopping site knowing that a user
did or did not buy a product on a particular other shopping site could help the
first target their promotions better.

## Sensitive information disclosure ## {#hl-sensitive-information}

Contributes to [=correlation=], [=identification=], [=secondary use=], and
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