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Calibration Attack Drills Down on iPhone, Pixel Users

A new way of tracking mobile users creates a globally unique device fingerprint that can t stop. A new type-of-concept for a new type of privacy attack, dubbed calibration fingerprinting, uses data from Apple iPhone sensors. Researchers say this provides an unusually effective means to track people as they browse across the mobile web and move between apps on their phones. The approach also affects Pixel phones from Google, which run on Android, according to the researchers.

Source: https://threatpost.com/calibration-attack-iphone-pixel/145037/

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