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How your phone's battery life can be used to invade your privacy
A little-known feature of the HTML5 specification means that websites can find out how much battery power a visitor has left on their laptop or smartphone – and now, security researchers have warned that that information can be used to track browsers online.
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It's really scary how much information can be extrapolated from a relatively benign & almost inconsequential dataset. This is why knowing the basics about privacy is now a must. This should be part of Civics classes (which in the US they don't even have anymore) or HomeEc or Homeroom. Something. People are very frivolous with the details of their day to day lives because of social media.