Feb
11
The Traceability of an Anonymous Online Comment
A recent privacy study from Berkeley shows how far such a strategy might reach. The Berkeley researchers found that nearly all of the top 100 sites on the web contain some sort of “web bug,” another term for the hidden web connection that allows a third party to automatically track a user on the site. Some of these sites will load dozens of web bugs on each page visit, which will litter user data far and wide on third party servers.
Read the whole post at Freedom to Tinker.
Or, check out KnowPrivacy.org, and watch their short video on web bugs.
And download the Firefox (ahem) add-on Ghostery. It’s amazing and scary:
