How You're Tracked guides
Every way you get tracked online and off, from fingerprinting and metadata to the hardware IDs in your devices, and what stops each one.
What is Metadata and how can it hurt your Privacy?
Metadata is data that describes other data. An example of this would be the email header contained within each email you send. It contains identifying info
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Devices can be tracked even when offline and invade your privacy
You have seen this in action/spy/Sci-Fi movies and shows, the protagonists always remove the battery of their phones to make sure it cannot be used. Most p
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Geolocation: How Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices track you
Geolocation is not only done by using mobile antennas triangulation. It is also done using the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices around you. Operating systems ma
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Here is how even your CPU can be used to track you
All modern CPUs are now integrating hidden management platforms such as the now infamous Intel Management Engine and the AMD Platform Security Processor.
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How DNS and IP requests can be used to track you and how to avoid it
DNS stands for “Domain Name System” and is a service used by your browser and other apps to find the IP addresses of a service. It is a huge “contact list”
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How to Counteract Forensic Linguistics
Stylometry is our personal and unique writing style. No matter who you are, you have a unique finger printable, and traceable writing style. This has been
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How your public IP address can lead back to you. Use these IP tools to find out what is exposed
Your IP address is the most known and obvious way you can be tracked. That IP is the IP you are using at the source. This is where you connect to the inter
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How your RFID enabled devices is tracking you
RFID stands for Radio-frequency identification, it is the technology used for instance for contactless payments and various identification systems. Of cour
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Smart Devices: Accepted Tracking for Convenience?
You got it; your smartphone is an advanced spying/tracking device that:
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Tracking your digital fingerprint, footprint and online behavior
This is the part where you should watch the documentary “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix. They cover this topic much better than anyone else IMHO.
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Tracking: Your Operating Systems and Apps telemetry services
Whether it is Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, or even Ubuntu. Most popular Operating Systems now collect telemetry information by default even if you never o
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You can be tracked via your Bluetooth MAC address
Your Bluetooth MAC is like the earlier MAC address except it is for Bluetooth. Again, it can be used to track you as manufacturers and operating system mak
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You can be tracked via your IMEI, IMSI and by extension, your phone number
The IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity and the IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity are unique numbers created by cell phone manufacture
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You can be tracked via your Wi-Fi or Ethernet MAC address
The MAC address is a unique identifier tied to your physical Network Interface Wired Ethernet or Wi-Fi and could of course be used to track you if it is no
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