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Credit to Author: David Buxton| Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:52:19 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some of the largest websites on the Internet use third-party software to track everything you do on their sites \u2014 including what you type, click, and scroll through.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Basic website tracking \u2014 page views, searches \u2014 isn’t news to anyone who pays attention to issues of online privacy and security. We’ve discussed\u00a0website users being tracked<\/a>, and we also offer a useful primer series on\u00a0how Internet ads work<\/a>. The scope and depth of the tracking may unnerve even jaded readers, though. New research investigated the use of\u00a0session replay<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>scripts, which track what exactly users do while browsing, on some of the Web’s top sites.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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These sites are capturing everything you type, mouse over, and click on. You know, sort of like a\u00a0keylogger<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><\/span>. For performance diagnostics, some of it makes sense: When you run a website that can have hundreds of thousands of pages, you need to learn what people are doing on them and if any pages are broken or not working as intended.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Problems arise, however, because the software is capable of tracking a great deal of information that isn’t necessarily useful for website developers, and because third parties have access to that information. A group of researchers from Princeton University\u00a0reported on the phenomenon<\/a>, saying: “Collection of page content by third-party replay scripts may cause sensitive information such as medical conditions, credit card details and other personal information displayed on a page to leak to the third-party as part of the recording. This may expose users to identity theft, online scams, and other unwanted behavior<\/i>.”<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As the researchers also pointed out, this sort of playback software is >”like somebody looking over your shoulder,”<\/i><\/em> while you’re online.<\/span>\u00a0Watch the video below to learn more about how it works.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n