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Signing Online Increasingly Means Signing Away your Privacy
“Stop spreading lies about Iran on Facebook,” hissed the message written in Farsi and sent to Hamid, an Iranian-American graduate in California. We know where t…
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Is Your Sex Life Really Private? The Truth About Online Dating Sites
* Date Published:03/06/2012 * Original Publication:Alter Net…
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Setting the Record Straight on Google’s Safari Tracking
Cross posted from Jonathan Mayer's Web Policy. Our recent research on Google’s circumvention of the Safari cookie blocking feature has led to some confusio…
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Google Now Facing Class-Action Suit over Safari Cookie Circumvention
* Date Published:02/21/2012 * Original Publication:Ars Technica…
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Safari Trackers
Apple’s Safari web browser is configured to block third-party cookies by default. We identified four advertising companies that unexpectedly place trackable coo…
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Google Tracks Unknowing Apple Users
CNN's John King speaks with Jonathan Mayer, the grad student who cracked the code that allowed Google to track users. * Date Published:02/17/2012 * Origi…
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Google Under Fire Over Secretly Tracking Users
* Date Published:02/17/2012 * Original Publication:CBS…
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Apple's Foxconn Supplier
Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student at Stanford University, talks about his research on Google Inc.'s violation of users' privacy on Apple Inc.'s Saf…
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Google and Others Tracking Safari Browser Users
Google and other companies which deliver online ads have been tracking which websites Apple Safari browsers have been accessing—despite default settings which a…
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Stanford Researcher Rebuts Google’s Browser Privacy Defense
SF Gate's James Temple interviews Jonathan Mayer about his study and Google bypassing the privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser. * Date Published…
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Google’s Cookie Trick in Safari Stirs Debate
Jonathan Mayer's findings are "stirring up much discussion online," according to a New York Times Bits discussion: "Google’s Cookie Trick in…
Jonathan Mayer - Do Not Track: Technology, Policy, and Politics
November 29, 2011 http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6750 Web tracking is pervasive: the average popular website incorporates over fifty third-party tracking me…