"“Many folks were expecting Google to do something. When major competitors have come out with a much praised user feature, you can imagine they would come…
Blocking cookies is bad for privacy. That’s the new disingenuous argument from Google, trying to justify why Chrome is so far behind Safari and Firefox in offer…
"At a minimum, “Facebook is going to have to think about ways to structure their technology to give that proper notice,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a Northeaste…
"What Curran found is the reality that Google's millions of users face every day, said Scott J. Shackelford, an associate business professor at Indiana…
"Dr. Richard Forno is a senior lecturer, and the director of the Graduate Cybersecurity Program for the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Forno ex…
"“Just how bad is online tracking?” asked Arvind Narayanan, a researcher at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, as he made a p…
by Steven Englehardt, Gunes Acar, and Arvind Narayanan. Recently we revealed that “session replay” scripts on websites record everything you do, like someone l…
"For Narayanan, most of the blame goes to the websites who choose to run scripts like AdThink, often without realizing how invasive they truly are. “We'…
""In my experience, (the website) publishers are by-and-large unaware of the privacy-invasive behavior of the third-party scripts that they add to the…
"Richard Forno, assistant director of the UMBC Center for Cyber Security, noted that researchers have found many companies that use technology like NaviSto…
"According to Narayanan, even without trackers, it is safe to conclude that anonymity does not exist on the internet. Narayanan’s group previously demonstr…
""Users may assume they are anonymous when they are browsing a news or a health website, but our work adds to the list of ways in which tracking compa…