Online Trackers Follow Our Digital Shadow By 'Fingerprinting' Browsers, Devices
"Princeton's Arvind Narayanan and Steven Englehardt studied how all the things we do not see as users are valuable to someone on our digital trail, as…
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Internet Tracking Has Moved Beyond Cookies
"A new survey from a group of Princeton researchers of one million websitessheds some light on the cutting-edge tricks being used to follow your digital tr…
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Sites Spying on You in Weird New Ways, Princeton Study Exposes
""Several features of the web...are being used or abused, depending on how one looks at it, by these tracking companies and various entities in the ad…
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Study of 1 million sites shows just how closely we’re watched
"Studying a million websites is hard. To do it, Arvind Narayanan – who heads the Web Transparency and Accountability Project at Princeton University – buil…
Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis
Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis is the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking to date. We measure stateful (cookie-…
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Huge new study shows that Google is watching you everywhere you go
"All of this might sound terrifying, but as assistant professor Arvind Narayanan and graduate student Steven Englehardt explain, the preeminence of Google,…
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The FTC Seeks Clarity On Cross-Device Tracking – But Opt-Out Remains A Murky Mire
"“If it’s hard for researchers to figure out what’s going on, it’s hard for the general public,” said privacy researcher and Stanford University computer s…
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The State Of Opt-Outs: Not Pretty For Privacy
"As the ad industry girds for the mushrooming debate around privacy, consumer choice and ad blocking, it’s clear that existing opt-out mechanisms aren’t ex…
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As Privacy Debate Rages, Is The Ad Industry Fresh Out Of Ideas?
"“Americans don’t think the trade-off of their data for personalized services is a fair deal,” said Omer Tene, VP of research for the International Associa…
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Uber tracking raises privacy concerns
"The FTC has cracked down on companies that violate their own privacy policies on how they handle data, but have a lot of latitude as long as they comply w…
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Tracking the trackers: Investigators reveal pervasive profiling of Web users
""What's unfortunate is the huge gap of information — understanding what's happening on the Web and what users know about tracking," said…
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Privacy experts call for Whisper to be investigated over tracking of some users
"Privacy expert Woodrow Hartzog, a visiting professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, said the only likely bar to an investigation was time. The ca…