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Lukasz Olejnik

I write about security, privacy, Web, technology and tech policy matters.

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24 Aug 2020 on web, privacy, anonymisation, fingerprinting, foresight, gdpr, research

Web browsing histories are private personal data - now what

The user’s Web browsing history is usually defined as a list of websites the user has visited, such as “google.com, facebook.com, reddit.com, bbc.co.uk, random-site.org, etcetc.org.uk”. On its own, it may seem innocuous. It turns out browsing history can be processed to…

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21 Mar 2017 on privacy, battery, w3c, fingerprinting, research

Battery Status Not Included: Assessing Privacy in W3C Web Standards

Designing standards with privacy in mind should be a standard in itself. Historically this was not always the case and the idea of designing systems with privacy is relatively new - it dates from the beginning of this decade. One of the milestones is accepting this view on the IETF…

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