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How your phone’s battery life can be used to invade your privacy

Posted on August 3, 2015June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Alex Hern reports:

A little-known feature of the HTML5 specification means that websites can find out how much battery power a visitor has left on their laptop or smartphone – and now, security researchers have warned that that information can be used to track browsers online.

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