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Privacy Issue: Battery Fingerprinting

Open versable opened this issue 9 years ago • 0 comments

A recently released paper has shown [1] how the HTML5 Battery API [2] can be used to accurately track devices. It would be nice to have a privacy option to disable access to the API.

  • [1] Lukasz Olejnik et al.. The leaking battery A privacy analysis of the HTML5 Battery Status API PDF
  • [2] Battery Status API. W3C Candidate Recommendation (08 May 2012) Link

versable avatar Nov 02 '16 09:11 versable