Collaborate Disseminate
Too many Facebook users aren’t aware that the company uses the information provided by them and their actions on the platform and outside of it to create a list of their traits and interests, which is then used by to target them with relevant ads… Continue reading Most Facebook users aren’t aware that Facebook tracks their interests
Researchers have identified a number of online user tracking techniques that can’t be blocked by browsers’ built-in anti-tracking defenses and existing anti-tracking and ad-blocking extensions. The good news is that they’ve also scann… Continue reading Researchers reveal new online user tracking techniques
Apple has announced a slew of new features for iOS 12 and macOS Mojave (10.14), but also some security and privacy improvements that should make privacy-minded users very happy. The improvements are mainly tied to Safari, which is the default browser o… Continue reading New security, privacy features in iOS 12 and macOS Mojave
If you are unaware, the security standard HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) can be abused as a ‘supercookie’ to surreptitiously track users of almost every modern web browser online without their knowledge even when they use “private browsing.”
Ap… Continue reading Apple Blocks Sites From Abusing HSTS Security Standard to Track Users
DuckDuckGo, the company behind the eponymous privacy-minded Internet search engine, has announced a new browser extension and mobile app: DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials does four things: It makes DuckDuckGo the default sea… Continue reading DuckDuckGo offers new privacy extension and app
Ad targeters are exploiting browsers’ built-in login managers to covertly collect hashes of users’ email addresses, to be used to track them across the web. “Email addresses are unique and persistent, and thus the hash of an email add… Continue reading Ad targeters exploit browsers’ password managers to track users online
Do you know? Thousands of websites use HTML5 Canvas—a method supported by all major browsers that allow websites to dynamically draw graphics on web pages—to track and potentially identify users across the websites by secretly fingerprinting their web browsers.
Over three years ago, the concern surrounding browser fingerprinting was highlighted by computer security experts from Princeton
Emails are a widely used means for third parties to tie your email address to your activities across the web, Princeton University researchers have discovered. The extent of email tracking Email tracking was originally aimed at allowing senders to know whether the recipient has read the sent email. Unfortunately, many third parties also receive this information. “Email tracking is possible because modern graphical email clients allow rendering a subset of HTML,” Steven Englehardt, Jeffrey Han, … More → Continue reading The privacy implications of email tracking
Americans are increasingly concerned about their online privacy and security, and apprehensive about increased government surveillance in the new presidential administration, the results of a recent survey by AnchorFree have revealed. Over 1,000 users of the company’s Hotspot Shield personal VPN application were polled, and 84 percent of them said they are more concerned about their online privacy and security today than they were a year ago. 64 percent stated that they are more concerned … More → Continue reading Americans increasingly worry about online privacy and security
Your web browsing history contains enough information for third parties to be able to link it to your social media profile (Twitter, Facebook, Reddit), Stanford and Princeton researchers have found. Worrying research results “Our approach is based on a simple observation: each person has a distinctive social network, and thus the set of links appearing in one’s feed is unique. Assuming users visit links in their feed with higher probability than a random user, browsing … More → Continue reading Your web browsing history can be linked to your social media accounts