Verizon's Mobile ‘Supercookies’ Seen as Threat to Privacy
For the last several months, cybersecurity experts have been warning Verizon Wireless that it was putting the privacy of its customers at risk. The computer codes the company uses to tag and follow its mobile subscribers around the web … Tweets: @robpegoraro and @juliaangwin Tweets: Rob Pegoraro / @robpegoraro : Touching mix of arrogance and naiveté by VzW: You can't opt out of our supercookie—but nobody would dare exploit it! http://www.nytimes.com/... Julia Angwin / @juliaangwin : Buried news in this NYT story: Verizon considering an opt out for customers tagged with undeletable tracking number http://www.nytimes.com/...