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Such tracking peers into people's Web-browsing histories to see if they previously had visited any of more than 1,500 websites, including ones dealing with fertility problems, menopause and credit repair, the researchers said.
Latest in Web Tracking: Stealthy 'Supercookies' Julia Angwin 2011
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A user ID can be used to look up a user's name and other publicly available information on the social network; it can then be linked to other Web-browsing activities, allowing marketers to build profiles of Internet users.
Facebook Pledges Steps on U Emily Steel 2010
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It said the browser eliminates 90% of the data that, when using a conventional Web-browsing method, would need to go between a phone and a website's server.
Amazon Cloud Boosts Fire Stu Woo 2011
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Gathering information about Web-browsing history can offer valuable clues about people's interests, concerns or household finances.
Latest in Web Tracking: Stealthy 'Supercookies' Julia Angwin 2011
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How many of these have you experienced when Web-browsing: music and videos that play automatically, pop-up and pop-under windows that launch on their own, and browser windows that open without navigation buttons or that launch at a size that can't be changed?
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The companies used special computer code that tricks Apple's Safari Web-browsing software into letting them monitor many users.
Google's iPhone Tracking Julia Angwin 2012
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Last year, he developed the "evercookie"—a type of tracking file that is difficult to be removed from computers—as a way to highlight the privacy vulnerabilities in Web-browsing software.
Apple, Google Collect User Data Julia Angwin 2011
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"There is free talk time, free SMS and free Internet" service, the Jakarta electronics-store manager says, referring to deals on calling, texting and Web-browsing available by buying SIM cards.
Cellphone Jugglers Seek Best Deals Eric Bellman 2011
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Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.'s Web browser on their iPhones and computers—tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked.
Google's iPhone Tracking Julia Angwin 2012
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Even if they deleted regular cookies, information about their Web-browsing could have been retained by Microsoft.
Latest in Web Tracking: Stealthy 'Supercookies' Julia Angwin 2011
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