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Privacy and Power: Your digital fingerprint (Part 1)
Dec. 9, 201912:07
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Privacy and Power: Your digital fingerprint (Part 1)

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Everything you do online generates a record. And there are many silent third parties lurking in the background, collecting your personal information and exchanging it with other third parties while you browse the web. In this first installment of “Privacy and Power,” we visit leading computer science researchers to see some new and alarming ways these third-party companies are quietly collecting our information, even when you’ve taken measures to block conventional forms of web tracking.Dec. 9, 2019

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