New research highlights privacy abuse involving Meta and Yandex | Radboud University
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An international research collaboration discovered a potential privacy abuse involving Meta and Yandex bridging persistent identifiers to browsing histories. Native Android apps, such as Facebook or Instagram, silently listen on fixed local ports.

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This kind of cross-platform tracking is unprecedented - and it’s especially surprising coming from two companies that serve billions of users worldwide

  • xep@fedia.io
    18·
    3 days ago

    Is anyone surprised by this? Their entire business model is based on tracking people so of course they’ll want to de-anonymize users.

  • Cocopanda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Well. Fuck them. They banned me for calling out racists. Glad they don’t have my data anymore.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    and it’s especially surprising coming from two companies that serve billions of users worldwide

    I mean, deanonymization and data-mining costs are gonna be R&D, so they’re a fixed cost that doesn’t really scale up with the size of the userbase, so it makes more sense, financially, for a company with a larger userbase to be putting resources into it.