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Privacy Issue: Battery Fingerprinting #17

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versable opened this issue Nov 2, 2016 · 0 comments
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Privacy Issue: Battery Fingerprinting #17

versable opened this issue Nov 2, 2016 · 0 comments

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versable commented Nov 2, 2016

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
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