Your ‘Anonymous’ Browsing Data Isn’t Actually Anonymous – Motherboard
“This also underscores the importance of net neutrality in America. In March, the US Congress voted to eliminate broadband privacy rules that would require Internet Service Providers to get customer consent before selling their browsing data. And as Eckert and Dewes’ investigation shows, this data can be easily obtained and used to pull individual’s browsing histories from the ‘anonymous’ data.
“‘I have this feeling that data brokers don’t know what’s in the data,’ Eckert said. ‘When I made these phone calls to inquire about buying data, they spoke as if they were selling stones or apples. These companies have lost their minds when it comes to data collection.'”
Researchers said it was “trivial” to identify users and view their browsing habits in purchased ‘anonymous’ browsing data. SHARE TWEET In August 2016, a data broker received a phone call from a woman named Anna Rosenberg, who worked for a small startup in Tel Aviv. Rosenberg claimed she was training…
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