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August 6, 2016 08:15 am PDT
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Web companies can track you -- and price-gouge you -- based on your battery life
In Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis, eminent Princeton security researchers Steven Englehardt and Arvind Narayanan document the use of device battery levels -- accessible both through mobile platform APIs and HTML5 calls -- to track and identify users who are blocking cookies and other methods of tracking. (more…)
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