Tag: TINFOILHAT

Whether you were aware of it or not, Google has always tagged Chrome installs with a unique identifier. It's long been reported as a privacy-compromising feature, though as H-Online states in their post today that has never been proven. Analysts have tried to do so via packet sniffing but there's been no smoking gun to date. Google's official word on the matter has always been that the client ...

Earlier in the year, Jay covered PrivacyChoice - a service that lets you easily opt-out of tracking cookies with a tonne of webservices. However, very few people really know how these services plan to use your information. I'll admit a macabre fascination with the information that the likes of Google could collect and use - for example, if users send a link via email does Google use this in ...