Boffins plot global (browser) cookie crumb trail

  • 18 September 2014
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By Richard Chirgwin, 18 Sep 2014
 
Privacy laws covering the use of personally-identifiable information are, on a global scale, creating a dizzying patchwork of cookie-cutter cookie-serving companies created to sniff our Web browsing.
That's one conclusion of research led by Marjan Falahrastegar at Queen Mary University, London. The group, which included collaborators from the Qatar Research Computing Institute and the University of Nottingham, has undertaken the job of untangling the spaghetti-like trails left by cookies and published their work at Arxiv,here.
 It won't surprise anyone to know that global sites dominate the cookie landscape: third-party cookie shippers owned by Google, Amazon and Facebook are distributed pretty evenly around the world, while Google, Yahoo! and AOL own between them the largest number of third-party cookie services around the world.
 
The Register/ full article here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/18/boffins_grapple_with_tracker_geography/

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