{"id":11978,"date":"2014-08-05T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11978"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:13:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:13:41","slug":"meet-the-online-tracking-device-that-is-virtually-impossible-to-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/meet-the-online-tracking-device-that-is-virtually-impossible-to-block","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Angwin \u2014 Nation of Change<br \/>\n<br \/> A new, extremely persistent type of online tracking is shadowing visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to <a href=\"http:\/\/YouPorn.com\">YouPorn.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First documented in a <a href=\"https:\/\/securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be\/%7Egacar\/persistent\/index.html\">forthcoming paper<\/a> by researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/main\/\">Princeton<\/a> University and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuleuven.be\/english\">KU Leuven<\/a> University in Belgium, this type of tracking, called canvas fingerprinting, works by instructing the visitor\u2019s Web browser to draw a hidden image. Because each computer draws the image slightly differently, the images can be used to assign each user\u2019s device a number that uniquely identifies it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationofchange.org\/meet-online-tracking-device-virtually-impossible-block-1406127728\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Angwin \u2014 Nation of Change A new, extremely persistent type of online tracking is shadowing visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.com. First documented in a forthcoming paper by researchers at Princeton University and KU Leuven University in Belgium, this type of tracking, called canvas fingerprinting, works by instructing the visitor\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46938,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978\/revisions\/46938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}