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You don't get to call a thing something it isn't simply because you don't like that thing. The action of taking your fingerprint to identify you is fingerprint
by throwaway290 4y ago
You don't get to call a thing something it isn't simply because you don't like that thing.
The action of taking your fingerprint to identify you is fingerprinting. Providing you a handrail without a purpose of identifying you, even though it happens to take your fingerprint for anyone else, is not fingerprinting. Changing your fingerprint is not fingerprinting.
This is an abuse of a technology with more harm then benefit if you ask me. Calling it "fingerprinting" is still a category error.
- dymk 4y agoChanging something about the device so you can identify that device (or set of devices) later on is literally electronic fingerprinting.
- hayalci 4y agoRepeatedly claiming something doesn't make it true. Here's what the Electronic Frontier Foundation says about fingerprinting. """Digital fingerprinting is the process where a remote site or service gathers little bits of information about a user's machine, and puts those pieces together to form a unique picture, or "fingerprint," of the user's device""" From: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/what-fingerprinting https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/what-fingerprinting Here what TeamViewer is doing isn't fingerprinting. it's not combining unrealated bits of information to uniquely identify a user/computer. it's looking at literally one bit of information to identify whether the current non-uniquely-known user is in a -large- group or not, the group of "computers with teamviewer installed". it can be claimed that this is adding to the bits that can improve a third party's ability to uniquely identify a user/computer, but that's a different claim, that's not what teamviewer is doing.