AT&T kills the 'permacookie,' stops tracking customers' Internet usage (for now)

Macworld
Nov 15, 2014, 4:46 pm2.3k ptsInteresting
In recent weeks, Verizon and AT&T have been caught up in a privacy firestorm over their use of so-called “permacookies,” a method of tracking what their users do while browsing the Web with the intent of sharing that data with advertisers. Verizon’s permacookie program lives on, but AT&T has ceased the…

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