Popular generative‑AI browser assistants can and do sweep up deeply personal data from ordinary web sessions — including health records, bank details and even social‑security numbers — and forward that content to remote servers where it can be tracked, profiled and reused in ways most users...
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AI browser assistants are quietly sweeping up private, sensitive information from pages users assume are off-limits — including medical records, bank details, academic transcripts, and even social security numbers — according to a new cross‑national audit of the most popular generative-AI...
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Google is experimenting with a new Incognito-mode protection called Script Blocking in Incognito that will block third‑party scripts known to perform browser fingerprinting techniques, using a list‑based Masked Domain List (MDL) and a small change to the Fetch specification that gives browsers a...
Microsoft Edge has rapidly evolved from simply being a reliable web browser to one that is acutely aware of user privacy concerns, especially as digital tracking grows ever more sophisticated and pervasive. The introduction and continued refinement of tracking prevention in Microsoft Edge...
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