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23Sep/20Off

The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website

“If it’s free, that doesn’t mean it’s free. It just means it doesn’t cost money.” Instead, it costs your website visitors’ privacy.

More than 200 popular websites used a particularly invasive technique that captures personal information people enter on forms—like names, phone numbers, and passwords—before they hit send. It’s called “key logging” and it’s sometimes done as part of session recording.

One of the websites doing this, SunTrust Bank, sent the user name and password we entered to a third party, Jornaya, which says it encrypts and discards the data it collects.

See the full story here: https://themarkup.org/blacklight/2020/09/22/blacklight-tracking-advertisers-digital-privacy-sensitive-websites?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpsaVpEYzJORGxsTWpZMCIsInQiOiIxMVVVMDQ2Z3VrYmNweUNcL2J5S0FcL25memFyWVNXNzkwK3ZlUmlsdlRBelwvaUNlb0JvbjhKcFwvdkFmMUJQMVZibGhvd3U4RmJQV1ljNytCVUF6TzVGVmlPYmcwb2txNCt6MTN0K25jbHp3RnRoN21FZkR1dkYzWFRcL2NuTDhXeDN0In0%3D

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