Electronic Frontier Foundation knocks web browser privacy
This means that most Internet users are a lot less anonymous than they believe, Eckersley said. "Even if you turn off cookies and you use a proxy to hide your IP address, you could still be tracked," he said. The data doesn't actually identify the web user, but it creates a unique browser "fingerprint," that can be used to identify the user when he visits other websites.
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