Verizon’s ‘Perma-Cookie’ Is a Privacy-Killing Machine

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Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
Verizon’s ‘Perma-Cookie’ Is a Privacy-Killing Machine
Verizon Wireless has been subtly altering the web traffic of its wireless customers for the past two years, inserting a string of about 50 letters, numbers, and characters into data flowing between these customers and the websites they visit.

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