Showing posts with label fingerprinting technology. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Websites can track your secrets

Several of Internet's top websites use device fingerprinting technology to track users without their knowledge, a new study has revealed.

According to the study by KU Leuven-iMinds researchers, 145 of the Internet's 10,000 top websites use hidden scripts to extract a device fingerprint from user's browsers.

The device fingerprinting or browser fingerprinting circumvents legal restrictions imposed on the use of cookies and ignores the Do Not Track HTTP header.