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How advertisers became the NSA's best friend

on December 12, 2013

"Tracking cookies offers the NSA the perfect system for following suspects across the web: it's pervasive, persistent, and for the most part, it's still unencrypted. "It solves a bunch of tricky problems for bulk web surveillance that would otherwise be quite difficult," says Jonathan Mayer, a fellow at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society who worked with the Washington Post on the report. "

Date Published:12/12/2013
Original Publication:The Verge

Published in: Press , NSA , Privacy