Hi all,
I just discovered this study from "Freedom to tinker" [1] that clearly shows clinic evidence of psychotic disorders by few web market operators who pretend to track every single bit of users data with a new "technology" called "session replay scripts":
«These scripts record your keystrokes, mouse movements, and scrolling behavior, along with the entire contents of the pages you visit, and send them to third-party servers. Unlike typical analytics services that provide aggregate statistics, these scripts are intended for the recording and playback of individual browsing sessions, as if someone is looking over your shoulder.»
in some cases passwords are included in session recordings
I'm always astonished by the fantasy _and_ resources some group of people is willing to invest to try to control users
apart from the clinical evidences, this also clearly shows that GDPR [2] - that I *really* appreciate - will be as easily circumvented as the European Union's net-neutrality rules _are_ circumvented [3]; this is why I agree with #youbroketheinternet [4] folks that _both_ "net neutrality" and "no massive surveillance market" can be achieved with and _only_ with a GNU Internet, aka a free Internet *by design* (please do _not_ consider the web as the whole Internet, as some unfortunately tend to do)
my conviction is stronger after I read of another working paper [5] co-authored from a Stanford senior fellow that shows that privacy tends to take a backseat to convenience and can easily get tossed out the window for a reward as simple as free pizza
please consider that I *suspect* that this state of mind is also valid if you think about user data "leaked" from our computing devices, not "just" the web
<joke> I'm addicted to pizza and **they know* that! so if they promise to give me a pizza I'll let them track any data they want about me without making any question... where's my pizza?!? :-D </joke>
ciao Giovanni
[1] hosted by Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation [3] http://www.businessinsider.com/net-neutrality-portugal-how-american-internet... [4] http://youbroketheinternet.org/ [5] https://news.stanford.edu/2017/08/03/pizza-privacy-stanford-economist-examin...