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geneva_convenience ( geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml )  to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago

Verify your ID to protect the kids

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Verify your ID to protect the kids

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geneva_convenience ( geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml )  to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago
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    Your computer has, on a hardware level, sent unique identifiers to ISPs and websites since Pentium IIIs.

    Source?

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      Source.

      I’m not the person who made the claim but Device Fingerprinting has been around for decades and Hardware ID is certainly part of that.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint

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        That’s not the computer doing it, that’s the services you use going out of their way to gather one by combining data which has other legitimate purposes. Not so much being “sent” as it is being “abused”.

        Unless we want to count Microsoft’s “advertiser ID”.

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      Google “Protected Processor Identification Number (PPIN)” to learn more.

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        When is this being sent

        to ISPs and websites

        as claimed?

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