Advertising IDs
We all use smart-phones. With them we surf the Internet, do research and download and use apps. What we don’t know is that our activities are tracked by means of built-in unique identifiers that allow various subjects to know our actions and take advantage of our preferences. This project looks into possibilities for users to have these trackers permanently deleted.
Project lead: Stefano Rossetti
Relevant articles
Buy a phone, get a tracker: unauthorized tracking code illegally installed on Android phones
Apr 06, 2021 noyb launched further action against Google’s AAID. The somewhat hidden ID allows Google and all apps on the phone to track a user and combine information about online and mobile behaviour.
noyb files complaints against Apple's tracking code "IDFA"
Nov 16, 2020 Online tracking identifiers (“cookies”) are well-known and highly controversial. Apple even introduced functions in their browser to block cookies – but who has ever heard about “IDFA”?