Three researchers of the UC Berkeley School of Information have published results of an Internet privacy study that analyzed web privacy, data collection and information sharing on today’s Internet. Interested users can download the fill Internet privacy report from the project’s website or view the majority of its findings directly on the website.
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Internet Privacy Study
Firephorm – the anti-phorm Firefox extension
We have covered Phorm before at Ghacks. It is a very scary cooperation between several Internet Service Providers and advertising companies. The Internet Service Providers install tracking cookies on user systems and create a unique profile for each user which is then used by the advertising agencies to display targeted advertisement to the user. Especially [...]
Track the location of your notebook with Adeona
Adeona is a free Open-Source software that works completely independent. The application is running in the background and automatically recognizes a change of location by analyzing the network connection of the notebook. If someone would connect to a WLAN the software would automatically do IP lookups to determine the current location of the notebook.
Those information [...]
Finding out if someone clicked on a link
I’m not a huge fan of all those tracking scripts and applications that have popped up lately. It does not really matter if they track if an email was read or a link visited, they all invade other peoples privacy. I’m not saying that I can’t see their uses, can’t count the times that I asked myself if a recipient received and read the email that I have send to him.
