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Secretive, unblockable Verizon perma-cookies kick up privacy concerns
2014-10-29 01:01:59| Wireless - Topix.net
Verizon Wireless has kicked up something of a privacy scandal in recent days over how it tampers with user's web traffic sent via the company's wireless network. Hoping to cash in on lucrative advertising dollars from mobile devices, Verizon inserts a unique string of letters and numbers into individual users' HTTP requests that can be used to identify a specific device.
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