When Verizon bought AOL earlier this year, the two companies said they associate with "pursue the shared vision of building the largest media platform in the world." But they are also sharing something else - your personal data. From November, Verizon will start sharing the information collected by its controversial "supercookie" - an identifier inserted in the mobile Internet business navigation as standard for network clients - with extensive advertising network of AOL. AOL network, which is represented in 40 percent of the sites, will be able to match Internet users to their Verizon details, building profiles of their browsing habits and with specific targeted advertisements based on their cell phone use.
The change regardless of the consequences for privacy because the tracking method, (often unstoppable, undeletable and undetectable when inserted by carriers) can function as a beacon to let others follow you around Internet. Not only is the invasive method, but it is also clear, which means that external sources could get their hands on it. In some cases, this could let the government spy on you - the NSA has always used "preferences" cookie Google to track users, following the 3G Wi-Fi network on the basis of ID unique cookie on their phone. In others, it may allow companies to hit you with a bunch of ads tailored to your apparent preferences.
"The NSA has used Google cookies to track web traffic for specific users"
AT & T has stopped using its own tracking code "of supercookie" on its phones in November last year after an outcry, but Verizon has persisted, saying that it was "unlikely that the sites and entities ad will try to build customer profiles.” A few months later, it was revealed that the company announces its turn was followed revive "supercookies" on phones of Verizon customers even after they tried to remove them. In response, Verizon said it would work with gyration to ensure that its use of supercookie was "consistent with the purposes we intended."
Although the second largest network in the United States has finally bowed to pressure in March and allowed customers to withdraw using the supercookie, it is always enabled as standard on Verizon phones, and a significant proportion of users are unlikely to know it exists. Karen Zacharia, Chief of privacy Verizon, argued Pro Publica that sharing your data was actually more protective of privacy because "everything is in the business", but combining the monitoring of almost Verizon incomprehensible huge advertising network of AOL, traffic monitoring becomes more aggressive, less transparent and more difficult to escape.
The change regardless of the consequences for privacy because the tracking method, (often unstoppable, undeletable and undetectable when inserted by carriers) can function as a beacon to let others follow you around Internet. Not only is the invasive method, but it is also clear, which means that external sources could get their hands on it. In some cases, this could let the government spy on you - the NSA has always used "preferences" cookie Google to track users, following the 3G Wi-Fi network on the basis of ID unique cookie on their phone. In others, it may allow companies to hit you with a bunch of ads tailored to your apparent preferences.
"The NSA has used Google cookies to track web traffic for specific users"
AT & T has stopped using its own tracking code "of supercookie" on its phones in November last year after an outcry, but Verizon has persisted, saying that it was "unlikely that the sites and entities ad will try to build customer profiles.” A few months later, it was revealed that the company announces its turn was followed revive "supercookies" on phones of Verizon customers even after they tried to remove them. In response, Verizon said it would work with gyration to ensure that its use of supercookie was "consistent with the purposes we intended."
Although the second largest network in the United States has finally bowed to pressure in March and allowed customers to withdraw using the supercookie, it is always enabled as standard on Verizon phones, and a significant proportion of users are unlikely to know it exists. Karen Zacharia, Chief of privacy Verizon, argued Pro Publica that sharing your data was actually more protective of privacy because "everything is in the business", but combining the monitoring of almost Verizon incomprehensible huge advertising network of AOL, traffic monitoring becomes more aggressive, less transparent and more difficult to escape.
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