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Beyond Cookie Monster Amnesia: Real World Persistent Online Tracking

  • Date18 July 2019

In this paper, Professor Chris Mitchell tells us the latest ways in which advertisers are snooping on us.

Cyber security - ISG

In a recent article, published by the Daily Telegraph on 7th July, Professor Chris Mitchell highlights some research he conducted alongside two previous PhD students in which he explains the technology and latest techniques being used to harvest our data. The full paper can be found here  

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