I know this, and you should realise this, because Big Tech and little tech are often caught abusing your privacy for their financial gane.
How big?
Meta and Yandex have both been caught de-anonymizing website visitors by abusing legitimate Internet protocols and causing browsers to send unique identifiers to apps installed on the user’s devices.
Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers – Ars Technica
Now they have been caught they have stopped.
Not iOS
If you have an Apple device then there is some good news. Due to the strict controls Apple exerts over user privacy, the hack does not work.
On Android
Some browsers such as DuckDuckGo and Brave do provide some privacy protection.
What happens next?
Meta’s European operations is based in Ireland and Yandex is a Russian organisation. Let’s see what happens and how quickly it happens.
Good privacy is the first step to good cyber security.
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
