{"id":719,"date":"2014-07-21T15:42:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T23:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ariplex.com\/folia\/?p=719"},"modified":"2014-08-31T02:22:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T10:22:52","slug":"are-they-brain-dead-at-propublica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ariplex.com\/folia\/archives\/719.htm","title":{"rendered":"Are they brain-dead at ProPublica?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Bruce Schneier wrote a shocking post in his blog, in plain and clear words:<\/p>\n<ul><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/07\/fingerprinting_.html\">https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/07\/fingerprinting_.html<\/a><br \/>\n(highlighting by me)<br \/>\n[*quote*]<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nSchneier on Security<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fingerprinting Computers By Making Them Draw Images<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a new way<br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be\/~gacar\/persistent\/index.html\">https:\/\/securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be\/~gacar\/persistent\/index.html<\/a>)<br \/>\nto identify individual computers over the Internet. The page instructs the browser to draw an image. Because each computer draws the image slightly differently, this can be used to uniquely identify each computer. This is a big deal, because there&#8217;s no way to block this right now.<\/p>\n<p>Article:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/meet-the-online-tracking-device-that-is-virtually-impossible-to-block<\/p>\n<p>Posted on July 21, 2014 at 3:34 PM<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n[*\/quote*]<\/ul>\n<p>.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s it. Plain and simple. Now let us look at the text at ProPublica:<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<ul><a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/meet-the-online-tracking-device-that-is-virtually-impossible-to-block\">http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/meet-the-online-tracking-device-that-is-virtually-impossible-to-block<\/a><br \/>\n(highlighting by me)<br \/>\n[*quote*]<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.<\/p>\n<p>by Julia Angwin<br \/>\nProPublica, July 21, 2014, 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of an ongoing investigation:<br \/>\nSurveillance<\/p>\n<p><strong>ProPublica investigates the threats to privacy in an era of cellphones, data mining and cyberwar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Connect with Facebook to share articles you read on ProPublica. Learn more \u00bb<br \/>\nSafeguard the public interest.<\/p>\n<p>Support ProPublica\u2019s award-winning investigative journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Donate<br \/>\nLatest Stories in this Project<\/p>\n<p>    Here\u2019s One Way to Land on the NSA\u2019s Watch List<br \/>\n    Privacy Tools: How to Block Online Tracking<br \/>\n    Podcast: Mapping the NSA\u2019s Spying<br \/>\n    FAQ For Our NSA Chart<br \/>\n    No Warrant, No Problem: How the Government Can Get Your Digital Data<\/p>\n<p>    Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block<br \/>\n    California Halts Injection of Fracking Waste, Warning it May Be Contaminating Aquifers<br \/>\n    Privacy Tools: How to Block Online Tracking<br \/>\n    Error: You Have No Payments from Pharma<br \/>\n    Podcast: Glaser, Cuomo, and the Refusals That Made the Story<br \/>\n    <strong>Why Online Tracking Is Getting Creepier<\/strong><br \/>\n    Who Advised Cuomo on Mortgage Industry Investigation? A Mortgage Lobbyist<br \/>\n    <strong>It\u2019s Complicated: Facebook\u2019s History of Tracking You<\/strong><br \/>\n    <strong>We\u2019re Still Not Tracking Patient Harm<\/strong><br \/>\n    Dollars for Docs<\/p>\n<p>(David Sleight\/ProPublica)<\/p>\n<p>Update: A YouPorn.com spokesperson said that the website was &#8220;completely unaware that AddThis contained a tracking software that had the potential to jeopardize the privacy of our users.&#8221; After this article was published, YouPorn removed AddThis technology from its website.<\/p>\n<p>This story was co-published with Mashable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A new, extremely persistent type of online tracking is shadowing visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First documented in a forthcoming paper by researchers at Princeton University and KU Leuven University in Belgium, this type of tracking, called canvas fingerprinting, works by instructing the visitor\u2019s Web browser to draw a hidden image. Because each computer draws the image slightly differently, the images can be used to assign each user\u2019s device a number that uniquely identifies it.<br \/>\nCanvas Fingerprinting in Action<\/p>\n<p>Watch your browser generate a unique fingerprint image. This is for informational purposes only and no fingerprint information is sent to ProPublica. (Mike Tigas, ProPublica)<br \/>\nSee your browser\u2019s fingerprint<\/p>\n<p>Click the button above and your computer and web browser will draw a ProPublica-designed canvas fingerprint.<\/p>\n<p>Like other tracking tools, canvas fingerprints are used to build profiles of users based on the websites they visit \u2014 profiles that shape which ads, news articles, or other types of content are displayed to them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But fingerprints are unusually hard to block: They can\u2019t be prevented by using standard Web browser privacy settings or using anti-tracking tools such as AdBlock Plus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The researchers found canvas fingerprinting computer code, primarily written by a company called AddThis, on 5 percent of the top 100,000 websites. Most of the code was on websites that use AddThis\u2019 social media sharing tools. Other fingerprinters include the German digital marketer Ligatus and the Canadian dating site Plentyoffish. (A list of all the websites on which researchers found the code is here<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be\/~gacar\/sticky\/index.html\">https:\/\/securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be\/~gacar\/sticky\/index.html<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Rich Harris, chief executive of AddThis, said that the company began testing canvas fingerprinting earlier this year as a possible way to replace \u201ccookies,\u201d the traditional way that users are tracked, via text files installed on their computers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe\u2019re looking for a cookie alternative,\u201d Harris said in an interview.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harris said the company considered the privacy implications of canvas fingerprinting before launching the test, but decided \u201cthis is well within the rules and regulations and laws and policies that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the company has only used the data collected from canvas fingerprints for internal research and development. The company won\u2019t use the data for ad targeting or personalization if users install the AddThis opt-out cookie on their computers, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Arvind Narayanan, the computer science professor who led the Princeton research team, countered that forcing users to take AddThis at its word about how their data will be used, is \u201cnot the best privacy assurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Device fingerprints rely on the fact that every computer is slightly different: Each contains different fonts, different software, different clock settings and other distinctive features. Computers automatically broadcast some of their attributes when they connect to another computer over the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Tracking companies have long sought to use those differences to uniquely identify devices for online advertising purposes, particularly as Web users are increasingly using ad-blocking software and deleting cookies.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2012, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, noticed that a Web programming feature called \u201ccanvas\u201d could allow for a new type of fingerprint \u2014 by pulling in different attributes than a typical device fingerprint.<br \/>\nHow You Can Try to Thwart Canvas Fingerprinting<\/p>\n<p>    Use the Tor browser (Warning: can be slow)<br \/>\n    Block JavaScript from loading in your browser (Warning: breaks a lot of web sites)<br \/>\n    Use NoScript browser extension to block JavaScript from known fingerprinters such as AddThis (Warning: requires a lot of research and decision-making)<br \/>\n    Try the experimental browser extension Chameleon that is designed to block fingerprinting (Warning: only recommended for tech-savvy users at this point)<br \/>\n    Install opt-out cookies from known fingerprinters such as AddThis (Warning: fingerprint will likely still be collected, companies simply pledge not to use the data for ad targeting or personalization)<\/p>\n<p>In June, the Tor Project added a feature to its privacy-protecting Web browser to notify users when a website attempts to use the canvas feature and sends a blank canvas image. But other Web browsers did not add notifications for canvas fingerprinting.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, Russian programmer Valentin Vasilyev noticed the study and added a canvas feature to freely available fingerprint code that he had posted on the Internet. The code was immediately popular.<\/p>\n<p>But Vasilyev said that the company he was working for at the time decided against using the fingerprint technology. \u201cWe collected several million fingerprints but we decided against using them because accuracy was 90 percent,\u201d he said, \u201cand many of our customers were on mobile and the fingerprinting doesn\u2019t work well on mobile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vasilyev added that he wasn\u2019t worried about the privacy concerns of fingerprinting. \u201cThe fingerprint itself is a number which in no way is related to a personality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>AddThis improved upon Vasilyev\u2019s code by adding new tests and using the canvas to draw a pangram \u201cCwm fjordbank glyphs vext quiz\u201d \u2014 a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. This allows the company to capture slight variations in how each letter is displayed.<\/p>\n<p>AddThis said it rolled out the feature to a small portion of the 13 million websites on which its technology appears, but is considering ending its test soon. \u201cIt\u2019s not uniquely identifying enough,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n<p>AddThis did not notify the websites on which the code was placed because \u201cwe conduct R&#038;D projects in live environments to get the best results from testing,\u201d according to a spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the company does not use any of the data it collects \u2014 whether from canvas fingerprints or traditional cookie-based tracking \u2014 from government websites including WhiteHouse.gov for ad targeting or personalization.<\/p>\n<p>The company offered no such assurances about data it routinely collects from visitors to other sites, such as YouPorn.com. YouPorn.com did not respond to inquiries from ProPublica about whether it was aware of AddThis\u2019 test of canvas fingerprinting on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Read our recent coverage about how online tracking is getting creepier, how Facebook has been tracking you, and what tools to use to protect yourself.<br \/>\nLike this story? Sign up for our daily newsletter to get more of our best work.<br \/>\nJulia Angwin<\/p>\n<p>Julia Angwin is a senior reporter at ProPublica. From 2000 to 2013, she was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she led a privacy investigative team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2011 and won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2010.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n[*\/quote*]<\/ul>\n<p>.<br \/>\nTracking is evil. Okay, we know. <\/p>\n<p>Now we look at the policies of ProPublica. <\/p>\n<ul><a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/about\/steal-our-stories\">http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/about\/steal-our-stories<\/a><br \/>\n(highlighting by me)<br \/>\n[*quote*]<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nSteal Our Stories<\/p>\n<p>Unless otherwise noted, you can republish our articles and graphics for free. Here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/p>\n<p>    You can\u2019t edit our material, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style. (For example, \u201cyesterday\u201d can be changed to \u201clast week,\u201d and \u201cPortland, Ore.\u201d to \u201cPortland\u201d or \u201chere.\u201d)<br \/>\n    <strong>If you\u2019re republishing online, you have to link to us and to include all of the links from our story, as well as our PixelPing tag.<\/strong><br \/>\n    You can\u2019t sell our material separately.<br \/>\n    It\u2019s okay to put our stories on pages with ads, but not ads specifically sold against our stories. You can\u2019t state or imply that donations to your organization support ProPublica\u2019s work.<br \/>\n    You can\u2019t republish our material wholesale, or automatically; you need to select stories to be republished individually. You can\u2019t use our work to populate a web site designed to improve rankings on search engines, or solely to gain revenue from network-based advertisements.<br \/>\n    You cannot republish our photographs or illustrations without specific permission (ask our Communications Director Nicole Collins Bronzan if you\u2019d like to).<br \/>\n    Any web site our stories appear on must include a prominent and effective way to contact you.<br \/>\n    You have to credit us &#8212; ideally in the byline. We prefer \u201cAuthor Name, ProPublica.\u201d<br \/>\n    We do not generally permit translation of our stories into another language.<\/p>\n<p>Note that you can grab HTML code for our stories easily. Click on the \u201crepublish\u201d button \u201cRepublish\u201d on the left sidebar of every story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We\u2019re licensed under Creative Commons<\/strong>, which provides the legal details. If you have questions, contact our president, Richard Tofel.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n[*\/quote*]<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&#8220;We\u2019re licensed under Creative Commons&#8221;<\/strong>. Oh, really? How about the <strong>&#8220;PixelPing tag&#8221;<\/strong>? Let&#8217;s see:<\/p>\n<ul><a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/about\/pixelping\">http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/about\/pixelping<\/a><br \/>\n(highlighting by me)<br \/>\n[*quote*]<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>PixelPing<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat is it?<\/p>\n<p>ProPublica\u2019s PixelPing is a small snippet of javascript code that we\u2019re asking all of our partners to paste into stories we publish together to let us know how well our story is doing.<\/p>\n<p>Why are you doing this?<\/p>\n<p>Our mission is to effect real change through investigative journalism. One of the ways we do this is by providing world-class reporting free of charge to news outlets with large, influential audiences.<\/p>\n<p>An important piece of information we need in return is a sense of the size of the audience our stories reach on our partners\u2019 web sites. PixelPing is simply an efficient way of getting basic page-view statistics quickly.<\/p>\n<p>How does it work?<\/p>\n<p>PixelPing functions much like Google Analytics, Tacoda, Quantcast, and other beacons\u2014only much more simply. All you have to do is copy and paste the following line of code anywhere in the body of the article we\u2019re co-publishing in your website\u2019s content management system\u2014if possible, somewhere close to the top of the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&lt;script type=&#8221;text\/javascript&#8221; src=&#8221;http:\/\/pixel.propublica.org\/pixel.js&#8221; async=&#8221;true&#8221;&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What will my users see?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing. This will not affect your web page layout at all.<br \/>\nWhat does it track?<\/p>\n<p>Quite simply, it only counts the number of page views to the story on which the code appears. It doesn\u2019t count unique visitors. It also doesn\u2019t count anything on pages other than the one on which you loaded it.<\/p>\n<p>Who will see the data?<\/p>\n<p>We will hold the page view data PixelPing collects as confidential, and we will not share it with outsiders, period.<\/p>\n<p>Does this violate my privacy policy?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re keenly aware of how seriously all of our partners take the privacy of their users. PixelPing does not attempt to track anything at all about visitors\u2014neither individually nor in the aggregate\u2014nor does it attempt to set or read any cookies.<\/p>\n<p>Will it slow down my page or break my web pages?<\/p>\n<p>No. We\u2019ve tested our code extensively. Our code is designed to deal with heavy loads, and it\u2019s designed to \u201cfail gracefully,\u201d meaning that even if our servers are overloaded or down, your web page will not be \u201cblocked,\u201d or prevented from loading . The javascript code on your page will always take precedence over PixelPing.<\/p>\n<p>Who can I contact with questions about it?<\/p>\n<p>Call Scott Klein, our Editor of News Applications at 917-512-0205 or e-mail him at scott.klein@propublica.org.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n[*\/quote*]<\/ul>\n<p>Tracking is spying, and spying is evil.<\/p>\n<p>We do know that. <\/p>\n<p>But that is not all. The plain text of the ProPublica article is about 9093 Bytes in size. But, no, that is NOT what you download onto your computer to read that web-page. 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