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'Canvas fingerprinting' tracking method is sneaky but easy to halt

2014-07-25 13:42:29| InfoWorld: Top News

A method for tracking users across the Internet called "canvas fingerprinting" is simple to stop, but average Internet users may not know how to do it. A research paper concluded that code used for canvas fingerprinting had been in use earlier this year on 5,000 or so popular websites, unknown to most. Most but not all the sites observed used a content-sharing widget from the company AddThis.

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