I am going start 2025 off with a story about yours, mine and your organisation’s privacy online.
Digital fingerprinting is the practice of collecting, often passively and without the user’s knowledge, information about their online browsing habits and devices they are using for internet access, so later these devices/users can be identified and tracked. This is something separate from cookies that now should be transparent and in the control of the user. Digital fingerprinting is something difficult to opt out of.
Later this year Google is going to start collecting and using digital fingerprinting on its users.
Read more about this here, where Lukasz Olejnik, highlights the contraditions in Google’s declared privacy policy and it’s anti-privacy actions.
Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
This is something we all should be concerned about as we move deeper into an Big Tech world hungry for our information to power their AI economy. It is also a world where it appears the richest of those Big Tech companies openly support or do not support the governments of the world.
Good cyber security starts with good privacy.
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
