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Verizons latest privacy wrecking ploy: An unblockable supercookie that lets anyone track you on the internet
2014-11-05 19:30:29| Extremetech
Over the last week, it has emerged that Verizon Wireless has been silently tracking around 100 million mobile customers using a supercookie that can't be opted out of. The tracking cookie, as you can probably guess, allows Verizon to track almost everything that you do on the internet, and then sell that behavioral data to advertisers. Even worse, get this: Verizon's implementation of the supercookie is so sloppy that any third party can also use the cookie to track your behavior.
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