Canvas fingerprinting from Rigo Wenning on 2014-07-21 (public-privacy@w3.org from July to September 2014)

From: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 18:42:38 +0200
To: public-privacy@w3.org
Message-ID: <6541268.nkrNPm9NZP@hegel.sophia.w3.org>

https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/index.html

There was a lot of discussion around canvas and whether it was the right 
choice. It may also be the right choice for browser to give users the 
option to turn all those nice new features off if they do not want to be 
spied upon. To what extend do browsers trust the origin? I think we are 
in a field with lots of shades of gray.

Otherwise we are left surfing the Web with Amaya if we want privacy. 
Amaya knows no cookies, no javascript, no canvas. This can turn into an 
advantage.. 

 --Rigo

Received on Monday, 21 July 2014 16:43:07 UTC