New Technical Briefing: Digital Fingerprinting

Post authors: Stephanie T. Nguyen and Mihir Kshirsagar We published a technical briefing on device fingerprinting as part of a series of plain-language explainers for regulators on technical topics that arise in their work. The brief walks through how fingerprinting works technically, who provides the technology, and why it is spreading. As third-party cookies face restrictions from browsers and platform privacy controls, the tracking industry has shifted toward fingerprinting — a technique that...