Imagine tens of millions of users potentially receiving a popup asking the user to grant permission to be tracked, in September 2020.
The striking news emerged from this year’s Apple WWDC conference. Apple will limit the use of the IDFA “tracking identifier”. This identifier allowed advertisers to track the…
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Ambient Light Sensor is one of the more interesting data sources from privacy point of view. I recently highlighted a number of potential privacy issues in my analysis.
I described how the ability to access and track the changes of lighting conditions in the user's environment might contribute to security…
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Vibrating devices are a familiar thing. From the era of flip-phones, to vibrations induced by mobile apps. Or websites.
[Edit 15/11/19: Firefox is limiting access to Vibration API]
Vibration API
The mechanism allowing websites to utilize device's vibration motor is called Vibration API. The mechanism allows a device…
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