Re: [projectvrm] Fwd: [Privacy-list] Tracking the Trackers - Talks@TechSci 11/18 11AM - 12PM

[Peter Cranstone < >]

For all you privacy advocates you need to read section 10.8 of the HTTP 2.0 spec. Or as it should be known - Tracking 2.0

So what's the Holy Grail of advertising - to track you across MULTIPLE ORIGINS. What does this mean? Multiple devices. You're on your desktop and then you switch to mobile. 

Ok.. so with that in mind read the following section:

10.8 Privacy Considerations

• Several characteristics of HTTP/2 provide an observer an opportunity to correlate actions of a single client or server over time. These include the value of settings, the manner in which flow-control windows are managed, the way priorities are allocated to streams, the timing of reactions to stimulus, and the handling of any features that are controlled by settings.
  
  
• As far as these create observable differences in behavior, they could be used as a basis for fingerprinting a specific client, as defined in Section 1.8 of [HTML5].
  
  
• HTTP/2's preference for using a single TCP connection allows correlation of a user's activity on a site. Reusing connections for different origins allows tracking across those origins.
  
  
• Because the PING and SETTINGS frames solicit immediate responses, they can be used by an endpoint to measure latency to their peer. This might have privacy implications in certain scenarios.
  

All you have to do is 'Follow the Money'. HTTP needs to evolve for mobile advertising. And that means I need to track you across different origins.

HTTP2 is a protocol that is supported by a web server and browser. Look to see who controls BOTH endpoints. I wonder whose browser and server will support 2.0 first.

DNT is now no longer required because the PROTOCOL is tracking you, NOT the headers or the Identifiers or the Attributes.

It's good to own a browser.

Peter Cranstone

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Subject: [projectvrm] Fwd: [Privacy-list] Tracking the Trackers - Talks@TechSci 11/18 11AM - 12PM

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Talks@TechSci in the ToTS and TIP Series

Friday 11/18 11AM - 12PM in CGIS Knafel K262 (1737 Cambridge St). Conference call 724-707-3623 PIN: 53553

Tracking the Trackers

 

Online tracking poses a serious privacy challenge that has drawn significant attention in both academia and industry.

In this talk, I discuss my company's recent work in detecting tracking and exposing both the extent of tracker and the (mostly unseen) profiles generated by the tracking for the trackers. I will also reflect on whether the benefits of "Big Data" actually requires a massive privacy breach on a global scale or whether this is just a convenience for the companies involved to have all the data at hand. The interesting case of the browser (a major component/accomplice in tracking) as a precursor of things to come when everything becomes a computer (IoT etc...) will be discussed.

Speaker: Jean-Paul Schmetz is the Chief Scientist of Burda GmbH (a major German Media Company) and the founder/CEO of Cliqz GmbH (a browser/search engine company owned by Burda and Mozilla). He received his MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and his MA in Philosophy from the University of Louvain.

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