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This post is built around my paper (presented to/at the International Workshop on Privacy Engineering) devoted to privacy assessment in web standards. After the previous one (Battery Status Not Included: Assessing Privacy in W3C Web Standards) this is the next insight in this domain. While I point out the
Academics also discover many new previously unreported JavaScript APIs that are currently being used to fingerprint users.
Good but lengthy explainer. Middle section is a bit technical.
Firefox is getting ready to turn on its automatic anti-snooping tools to stop web ‘fingerprinting” tricks.
Device fingerprinting.
Large-scale collection of human behavioral data by companies raises serious privacy concerns. We show that behavior captured in the form of application usage data collected from smartphones is...
Fingerprint collecting platform
Chances are you know you’re being tracked online. Most of us are at the point where we’re not surprised when an ad for something we searched for on one site app…