Gap in browser privacy tech embarrassingly detected by Google
Apple on Tuesday updated its Intelligent Tracking Protection (ITP) system in its WebKit browser engine because it could be tracked.
While ITP has been somewhat effective, making Safari users more opaque and less valuable in the behavioral ad targeting ecosystem than cookie-laden Chrome users, it still has gaps. Recently, Google security researchers found a way to use ITP for the very thing it was created to stop and passed their findings on to Apple, to the potential detriment of their future ad revenue.
The iPhone biz acknowledged the tip in a WebKit blog post on Tuesday, somewhat masked by a slew of security updates. The software updates to Apple's various operating systems and browser address three WebKit vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-8835, CVE-2019-8844, ..
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