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19 Apr 2017 on w3c, privacy, web browser, firefox, privacy engineering, chrome, sensors, light sensor

Stealing sensitive browser data with the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API

In this post we describe and demonstrate a neat trick to exfiltrate sensitive information from your browser using a surprising tool: your smartphone or laptop’s ambient light sensor. In short: 1. We provide background about the light sensor API and current discussions to expose it more broadly to websites.…

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07 Jan 2017 on privacy, privacy engineering, nist, predictability, manageability, disassociability

Privacy Engineering Principles Recommended by NIST

Understanding and perceiving privacy as a technological and strategic aspect is becoming a standard practice. The recently published NIST Internal Report “An Introduction to Privacy Engineering and Risk Management” is an interesting attempt to systematize the understanding of privacy engineering. Privacy in this view forms an important technical and strategic…

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