Wednesday, 1 August 2018

Forget cookies, how you swipe on your phone is enough to track you

While we're worried about websites' excess use of cookies and apps wanting access to location information for no reason, scientists are a step ahead when it comes to tracking you.

A research paper titled "Touch and You're Trapp(ck)ed: Quantifying the Uniqueness of Touch Gestures for Tracking" goes into great detail analyzing something the scientists call "touch-based tracking". The team used a specially designed app and 89 participants to test out their theoretical models.

While the app was designed to gather the needed amount of different gestures faster, by letting the users ...

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