Dan Goodin reports: A privacy researcher has revealed the evil genius behind a for-profit web analytics service capable of following users across more than 500 sites, even when all cookie storage was disabled and sites were viewed using a browser’s privacy mode. The technique, which worked with sites including Hulu, Spotify and GigaOm, is controversial…
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Web-Analytics Firm KISSmetrics Reverses Course on Sneaky Tracking
Ryan Singel reports: The online analytics firm KISSmetrics quietly overhauled its web tracking methods over the weekend, and is now permitting users to block its surveillance, in a hurried response to a report slamming the company for using sneaky techniques to track web users who visit some of the biggest sites on the net. The 17-person Bay…
Code That Tracks Users’ Browsing Prompts Lawsuits
Tanzina Vega reports: … Ms. Person Burns is one of a growing number of consumers who are taking legal action against companies that track computer users’ activity on the Internet. At issue is a little-known piece of computer code placed on hard drives by the Flash program from Adobe when users watch videos on popular…
Privacy Suit Targets Net Giants Over Zombie Cookies
Ryan Singel writes: A wide swath of the net’s top websites, including MTV, ESPN, MySpace, Hulu, ABC, NBC and Scribd, were sued in federal court Friday on the grounds they violated federal computer intrusion law by secretly using storage in Adobe’s Flash player to recreate cookies deleted by users. At issue is technology from Quantcast,…