#NSA uses #Google #cookies to pinpoint targets for #hacking
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10/nsa-uses-google-cookies-to-pinpoint-targets-for-hacking
Marvin Ammori, a lawyer who advises technology companies including Google on surveillance issues, wrote in USA Today that “limiting bulk data collection by private companies - whether they advertise or not - would do little or nothing to limit the NSA.”
Felten disagrees, noting that the latest documents show that “the unique identifiers that are being placed on users’ computers are not only being used by analytic and advertising companies, but also being used by the NSA for targeting.” He also says that there are things those companies could do to protect their users from the type of attacks described in the slides, like “not sending tracking IDs, or at least not sending them in the clear” without a layer of encryption.