“the company considered the privacy implications of canvas fingerprinting before launching the test, but decided “this is well within the rules and regulations and laws and policies that we have.””
Well, wasn’t that nice of them to decide that tracking virtually every site a person visits wasn’t a violation of a person’s privacy.
The lobbyists paid Congress to rule it doesn’t violate your privacy. This was done in the 1980s.
Harry Reid and other Democrats defend it today saying that the junk mail elderly people receive (with its heartfelt begging letters for po’ indian chil’run and free name labels for envelopes) is the ONLY contact some of them have with the outside world.