"Apple warns iPhone users to stop using Google Chrome. “Unlike Chrome,” it says, “Safari truly helps protect your privacy.” Apple’s warning now includes secretive fingerprinting. And Chrome’s not the only Google app you need to stop using.

Apple says “Safari works to prevent advertisers and websites from using the unique combination of characteristics of your device to create a ‘fingerprint’ to track you. To combat fingerprinting, Safari presents a simplified version of the system configuration so more devices look identical to trackers, making it harder to single yours out.”

Digital fingerprinting has made an alarming comeback this year, with Google reversing its ban on this secretive, obfuscated technology that cannot be disabled. Given tracking cookies offer opt-outs, it’s bad news for users that fingerprinting do not."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/06/apple-warns-all--iphone-users-do-not-use-this-google-app/

#Apple #iPhone #Google #GoogleChrome #Oligopolies #BigTech #Privacy #DataProtection #DigitalFingerprinting

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 3D printers leave hidden ‘fingerprints’ that reveal part origins. “A new artificial intelligence system pinpoints the origin of 3D printed parts down to the specific machine that made them. The technology could allow manufacturers to monitor their suppliers and manage their supply chains, detecting early problems and verifying that suppliers are […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/31/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-3d-printers-leave-hidden-fingerprints-that-reveal-part-origins/

BBC: Critics say new Google rules put profits over privacy. “Privacy campaigners have called Google’s new rules on tracking people online ‘a blatant disregard for user privacy.’ Changes which come in on Sunday permit so-called “fingerprinting”, which allows online advertisers to collect more data about users including their IP addresses and information about their devices.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/17/bbc-critics-say-new-google-rules-put-profits-over-privacy/

#Google brings back digital #fingerprinting to #track users for #advertising | Mashable

Google is #tracking your online behavior in the name of advertising, reintroducing a data collection process that ingests all of your online signals (from IP address to complex browser information) and pinpoints unique users or devices, also known as "digital fingerprinting.
#privacy #surveillance #digitalfingerprinting

https://mashable.com/article/google-digital-fingerprinting-user-tracking

Goggle set to re-initiate digital fingerprinting for all of your internet connected devices on Feb 16, 2024.

“Fingerprinting involves the collection of pieces of information about a device’s software or hardware, which, when combined, can uniquely identify a particular device and user,” ...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/12/21/forget-chrome-google-will-start-tracking-you-and-all-your-smart-devices-in-8-weeks/ #Google #internet #digitalfingerprinting #search #devicetracking #digitaladvertising

CISPA: Digital Fingerprint: CSS Opens New Possibilities for User Tracking. “A study by CISPA researcher Leon Trampert and colleagues now suggests that [digital fingerprinting] can be applied not only when browsing the web but also in emails, through a previously underexplored method: the use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), a language for designing websites.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/04/digital-fingerprint-css-opens-new-possibilities-for-user-tracking-cispa/

The National (Scotland): ICO criticises Google over ‘irresponsible’ advertising tracking change. “Fingerprinting involves collecting pieces of information about a device’s software and hardware which can be combined to uniquely identify a device and its user – and the ICO has warned that this technology is harder to wipe than clearing cookies or site data from a web browser, meaning […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/21/the-national-scotland-ico-criticises-google-over-irresponsible-advertising-tracking-change/