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Do you have a source on fingerprinting being illegal? A lot of website privacy policies mention that they will collect "information about your device hardware c
by csande17 4y ago
Do you have a source on fingerprinting being illegal? A lot of website privacy policies mention that they will collect "information about your device hardware configuration" or similar language.
- kmeisthax 4y agoEU GDPR says otherwise. Furthermore, using fingerprinting to bypass do-not-track functionality (e.g. Apple's App Tracking Transparency) will get you slapped with an FTC fine or lawsuits. Hell, Google knows this intimately, because they got caught bypassing P3P[0] with a bogus privacy policy string[1]. [0] P3P, or Platform for Privacy Preferences, is an obsolete standard for specifying machine-readable privacy policies from a combination of standard attributes. IE6 enforced it, AFAIK. [1] https://www.networkworld.com/article/2186056/google-says-ie-privacy-policy-is-impractical-in-modern-web.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/2186056/google-says-ie-... https://www.cio.com/article/296774/security0-google-sued-for-violating-apple-browser-privacy-protection.html https://www.cio.com/article/296774/security0-google-sued-for...