Privacy analysis shows battery status API as tracking tool

Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - 19:00 in Mathematics & Economics

That same HTML5 battery status function that lets you see how you're doing and how much juice you have left could also leave you vulnerable: A Mashable senior editor, Stan Schroeder, reported Tuesday on a paper that shows just how your battery status API can be used to track your Internet activity.

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