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Nine Out of Ten of the Internet's Top Websites Are Leaking Your Data

Posted by samzenpus on from the like-a-sieve dept.

merbs writes: The vast majority of websites you visit are sending your data to third-party sources, usually without your permission or knowledge. That's not exactly breaking news, but the sheer scale and ubiquity of that leakage might be. Tim Libert, a privacy researcher, has published new peer-reviewed research that sought to quantify all the "privacy compromising mechanisms" on the one million most popular websites worldwide. His conclusion? "Findings indicate that nearly 9 in 10 websites leak user data to parties of which the user is likely unaware."

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  1. Re:All reported on by amicusNYCL · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ghostery blocked the following on motherboard.vice.com:

    Alexa Metrics
    ChartBeat
    Facebook Connect
    Google Ajax Search API
    Google Analytics
    Google+ Platform
    Krux Digital
    Netratings Sitecensus
    Pinterest
    Quantcast
    Sailthru Horizon
    Scorecard Research Beacon
    Twitter Button

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