SugarCoat modifies code to protect private data. Credit: UCSD
Computer scientists funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and affiliated with the University of California San Diego and Brave Software have developed a tool that will increase protections for users’ private data while they browse the web.
The tool, named SugarCoat, targets scripts that harm users’ privacy—for example, by tracking their browsing history around the web—yet are essential for the websites that embed them to function. SugarCoat replaces these scripts with others that have the same properties, minus the privacy-harming features. SugarCoat is designed to be integrated …
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