User experience test tools: a privacy accident waiting to happen

  • 20 November 2017
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Researchers watch publishers watching you, ignore privacy settings, run over mere HTTP

 
By Richard Chirgwin 20 Nov 2017
 
Researchers working on browser fingerprinting found themselves distracted by a much more serious privacy breach: analytical scripts siphoning off masses of user interactions.
 
Steven Englehardt (a PhD student at Princeton), Arvind Narayanan (a Princeton assistant professor) and Gunes Acar (KU Lueven), published their study at Freedom to Tinker last week. Their key finding is that session replay scripts are indiscriminate in what they scoop, user permission is absent, and there's evidence that the data isn't always handled securely.
 
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Alarming report as stated in this thread user error poor security habits cause havoc.

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