You can be tracked online using your Chrome browser extensions

A researcher has found a way to generate a fingerprint of your device from your installed Google Chrome extensions, and then use that fingerprint to track you online. Fingerprinting is a way of figuring out what makes your device unique and then using that to identify you as you move around the...

Snoopy Project mobile tracking and intelligence grows up

A year ago, the Snoopy Project was a neat research initiative that packaged a number of existing technologies into a framework to profile and track mobile devices. After a summer of Snowden revelations, something like Snoopy takes on a whole new meaning. Snoopy devices, called drones by researche...