PRIVACY Logs

PETs (Privacy-Enhancing Technologies) fall into three classic categories: data minimization and masking, control and transparency, and anonymous usage. * The three classic PET categories with examples. * 1. Data Minimization and Masking. The simplest approach: collect less data...

Quiz: PRIVACY / TOM and OSINT | updated: Jul 30, 2026

Swiss DSG Article 7 mirrors the GDPR approach in three paragraphs: a design obligation, a proportionality principle, and a privacy-friendly defaults requirement. * Privacy by Design compared: GDPR Art. 25 vs Swiss DSG Art. 7. * Paragraph 1: Design obligation. Controllers must de...

Quiz: PRIVACY / TOM and OSINT | updated: Jul 30, 2026

OSINT enables four active threat vectors: social engineering attacks, doxxing, stalking with physical danger, and corporate espionage. * Four active OSINT threat vectors built from harvested public data. * Social engineering. Attackers gather personal details through OSINT to cr...

Quiz: PRIVACY / TOM and OSINT | updated: Jul 30, 2026

Availability relies on redundancy and failover systems, while network security uses detection, segmentation, and zero-trust architectures. Availability and Resilience. Redundant hardware so no single component is a point of failure. Failover clusters that automatically switch to...

Quiz: PRIVACY / TOM and OSINT | updated: Jul 30, 2026

The chain of linkage, or "Kette der Verlinkung," follows three escalating phases: geographic precision, contextual correlation, and identity fusion. * The chain of linkage: three phases building a complete profile from public sources. * Phase 1: Geographic precision through GEOI...

Quiz: PRIVACY / TOM and OSINT | updated: Jul 30, 2026

First-party cookies are set by the site you're visiting (low risk); third-party cookies are set by other domains (e.g. ad networks) and enable cross-site tracking (high risk). * First-party cookies stay on one domain; one embedded third-party cookie tracks across sites. * * One...

Quiz: PRIVACY / Web Tracking | updated: Jul 30, 2026

A site draws hidden text/graphics on an HTML5 canvas; tiny rendering differences (GPU, drivers, anti-aliasing, font rendering) make the resulting image — and its hash — unique per device. * The four steps of canvas fingerprinting. * Why identical JavaScript yields different imag...

Quiz: PRIVACY / Web Tracking | updated: Jul 30, 2026

Removing third-party cookies cuts publisher revenue ~29–60%, and "privacy-preserving" alternatives like Topics API still leak: combined with fingerprinting, re-identification reaches 57% after 15 weeks. Revenue impact: Gu et al. (June 2025), "Can Privacy Technologies Replace Coo...

Quiz: PRIVACY / Web Tracking | updated: Jul 30, 2026

WebGL/GPU rendering and the Web Audio (AudioContext) API — same trick as Canvas: make the device render something, then hash the tiny hardware-specific differences in the result. Canvas fingerprinting is just one instance of a broader family. All of these exploit the fact that id...

Quiz: PRIVACY / Web Tracking | updated: Jul 30, 2026

Three key techniques protect traffic data: differential privacy adds statistical noise, geo-fencing excludes sensitive areas, and thresholding sets minimum data volumes before publishing. Differential Privacy. Add carefully calibrated mathematical noise to datasets so that indivi...

Quiz: PRIVACY / TOM and OSINT | updated: Jul 30, 2026