Marketplace Tech for Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Jul 22, 2014

Marketplace Tech for Tuesday, July 22, 2014

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First up, Lindsey Turrentine, Editor-in-Chief of Reviews at CNET, talks about Verizon’s new rewards program that gives customers deals in exchange for data about where and how they use their phones. Then, Stephen Cobb, a security researcher at ESET, stops by to talk about canvas fingerprinting, a new, hard-to-detect way for websites to track browsing habits without using cookies. Finally, we discuss with Nilay Patel about what Taylor Swift gets wrong about how the internet is changing the music industry.


First up, Lindsey Turrentine, Editor-in-Chief of Reviews at CNET, talks about Verizon’s new rewards program that gives customers deals in exchange for data about where and how they use their phones. Then, Stephen Cobb, a security researcher at ESET, stops by to talk about canvas fingerprinting, a new, hard-to-detect way for websites to track browsing habits without using cookies. Finally, we discuss with Nilay Patel about what Taylor Swift gets wrong about how the internet is changing the music industry.

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