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Title: The best defenses against Verizon's invasive, already-being-abused web tracking Post by: HCK on January 17, 2015, 09:00:16 am The best defenses against Verizon's invasive, already-being-abused web tracking
<article> <section class="page"> <p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a list of tools that can block online advertising companies from collecting web browsing data in ways that privacy advocates contend are deceptive.</p><p>Computer scientist Jonathan Mayer (http://webpolicy.org/2015/01/14/turn-verizon-zombie-cookie/) of Stanford University and ProPublica revealed (http://www.propublica.org/article/zombie-cookie-the-tracking-cookie-that-you-cant-kill) on Wednesday that an online advertising company, Turn, can re-create the history of a person’s Web browsing traffic using Verizon’s tracking system.</p><p>Verizon tracks its mobile subscribers’ web surfing by tagging their traffic at the carrier level with a number called a UIDH (Unique Identifier Header). Verizon uses the system for two of its targeted advertising programs.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2871512/how-to-protect-yourself-against-verizons-mobile-tracking.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: The best defenses against Verizon's invasive, already-being-abused web tracking (http://www.macworld.com/article/2871512/how-to-protect-yourself-against-verizons-mobile-tracking.html#tk.rss_all) |