*How Verizon Wireless Is Tracking You All Around the Web* Rob Pegoraro Tech Columnist November 4, 2014 When Web publishers first started saving information about their visitors in tiny text files called “cookies,” much of the Internet freaked out: “You mean there’s some little program on my computer that follows me around the Internet?” No, people like me would explain. Cookies don’t do anything on their own and can be read only by whatever site created them. Or so we thought. What if the one company that stays with you wherever you go on the Internet — that is, your Internet provider — started inserting cookies in your webpages and could track your online habits for marketing purposes? Those are the basics of the outrage over the discovery that Verizon Wireless is tagging most of its subscribers’ Internet traffic with individual identifiers as part of an advertising initiative. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews wrote Monday, this Verizon tracking “effectively reinvents the cookie, but does so in a way that is shockingly insecure and dangerous to your privacy.” And you can’t turn it off. […] Continua qui: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/how-verizon-wireless-is-tracking-you-all-around-t...