Re: Tracking with ultrasound beacons. Web Audio API privacy considerations need updating?

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joe@cdt.org> wrote:

> In some senses, platforms can help. E.g., just like there are small
> indicators present when an app is accessing location or the microphone to
> give users notice that something is using those resources, maybe a sound
> icon could be used? Chrome I think does this with tabs so that you can
> quickly identify which of dozens of tabs is the one playing annoying audio.
>

Firefox does this too.

Since this attack works for native apps as well, it's probably best blocked
by filtering out inaudible frequencies at the platform level.

Also I imagine that if this gets used much in the wild, the scripts
involved will be added the blacklist used by Firefox's tracking protection.

Rob
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