YOUR SMARTPHONE OR LAPTOP BATTERY COULD BE USED TO TRACK YOU, RESEARCHERS SAY

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European researchers published a paper revealing that your privacy could be compromised from the battery in your smartphone or laptop. Most people are probably unaware of something called the battery status API. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) introduced it in 2012, and the Firefox, Opera, and Chrome browsers support it.

Battery status API explained

It is a HTML5 specification that’s supposed to help websites conserve energy for those users that have minimal battery life remaining. Basically, the website can read the battery state of any device, such as how much life remains in terms of both minutes and percentage. Based on these results, the website can automatically disable power hungry features on webpages to conserve energy… see more

source: digitaltrends

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