[e-privacy] Panopticlick -- How Unique, and Trackable, Is Your Browser?

[Andrea Glorioso]

http://panopticlick.eff.org/about.php

Panopticlick -- How Unique, and Trackable, Is Your Browser?

What fingerprints does your browser leave behind as you surf the web?

   Traditionally, people assume they can prevent a website from
   identifying them by disabling [2]cookies on their web browser.
   Unfortunately, this is not the whole story.

   When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of
   information about your computer's configuration. Combined, this
   information can create a kind of fingerprint -- a signature that could
   be used to identify you and your computer. Some [3]companies are
   already using technology to try to identify individual computers. But
   how effective would this kind of online tracking be?

   EFF is running an experiment to find out. Panopticlick will anonymously
   log the configuration and version information from your operating
   system, your browser, and your plug-ins, and compare it to our database
   of many other Internet users' configurations. Then, it will give you a
   uniqueness score -- letting you see how easily identifiable you might
   be as you surf the web.

   Adding your information to our database will help EFF evaluate the
   capabilities of Internet tracking and advertising companies, who are in
   the business of finding as many ways as possible to record your online
   activities. They develop these methods in secret, and don't always tell
   the world what they've found. But this experiment should give us more
   insight into the future of online tracking, and [4]what web users can
   do to protect themselves.
   Learn about [5]Panopticlick and [6]web tracking. The Panopticlick
   [7]Privacy Policy. Learn about the [8]Electronic Frontier Foundation.
   [9]EFF
   A research project of the [10]Electronic Frontier Foundation

References

   1. https://panopticlick.eff.org/
   2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
   3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint
   4. http://panopticlick.eff.org/self-defense.php
   5. http://panopticlick.eff.org/about.php
   6. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/primer-information-theory-and-privacy
   7. http://panopticlick.eff.org/privacy.php
   8. https://www.eff.org/about
   9. https://www.eff.org/
  10. https://www.eff.org/

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