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The Agora => UK & World News => Going Geek info => Topic started by: Maik on Wednesday, 02 November, 2016 @ 17:41:55
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Your browsing history may have been sold already
Add-on companies are selling the browsing history of millions of users to third-parties according to a report that aired on German national TV.
Reporters of Panorama managed to gain access to a large data collection that contained the browsing history of roughly 3 million German Internet users.
The data was collected by companies that produce browser extensions for various popular browsers such as Chrome and Firefox.
Panorama did mention only one add-on, Web of Trust or WoT, but did not fail to mention that the data was collected by multiple browser extensions.
What's particularly worrying is that... It managed to uncover information about police investigations, the sexual preferences of a judge, internal financial information of companies, and searches for drugs, prostitutes, or diseases.
WOT notes on its website that it hands over data to third-parties but only in anonymized form. The team of reporters managed to identify several user accounts however which suggests that the anonymization does not work as intended.
http://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/01/browsing-history-sold/
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:bleh: :bleh: :bleh:
Tony