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Sites Guilty of Hijacking History

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the break-out-the-foil-hats dept.

Gunkerty Jeb writes "A recent study launched by the UC San Diego Department of Computer Science to determine the scope of privacy-violating information flows at popular websites shows that popular Web 2.0 applications such as mashups, aggregators, and sophisticated ad targeting are teeming with various kinds of privacy-violating flows. Ultimately the researchers determined that such attacks are not being adequately defended against."

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  1. CmdrTaco ... by jginspace · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... privacy-violating flows.

    CmdrTaco: Do you EVER read any submission before publishing?