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How websites are watching your every move and ignoring privacy settings

The Princeton researchers found it was difficult to redact personally identifiable information from browsing behaviour records

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Yijun Yu | The Conversation
Hundreds of the world’s top websites routinely track a user’s every keystroke, mouse movement and input into a web form – even before it’s submitted or later abandoned, according to the results of a study from researchers at Princeton University.
And there’s a nasty side-effect: personal identifiable data, such as medical information, passwords and credit card details, could be revealed when users surf the web – without them knowing that companies are monitoring their browsing behaviour. It’s a situation that should alarm anyone who cares about their privacy.
The Princeton researchers found it was difficult to redact personally identifiable

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