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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Printers leave a watermark on each page indicating the exact printer that it came from. Are there any other examples of these privacy violations that aren't common knowledge? (ttrpg.network)

submitted 2 weeks ago by thepompe@ttrpg.network to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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One thing I'm concerned about is recording equipment leaving identifiable information without us knowing about it.

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[–] Homme_Tanks@hexbear.net 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There is a new web fingerprinting technique that uses your GPU's individual idiosyncratic performance characteristics to enable/boost efficacy of web fingerprinting: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-use-gpu-fingerprinting-to-track-users-online/

A team of researchers from French, Israeli, and Australian universities has explored the possibility of using people's GPUs to create unique fingerprints and use them for persistent web tracking. The results of their large-scale experiment involving 2,550 devices with 1,605 distinct CPU configurations show that their technique, named 'DrawnApart,' can boost the median tracking duration to 67% compared to current state-of-the-art methods.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.09956