Application tracking in Wacom tablets. [Research Saturday]

Feb 29, 2020 · 20 min · Season 4 · Episode 124

0:00-20:38

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Today's Research Saturday features our conversation with Robert Heaton, a software engineer with Stripe who penned a blog post about his disappointing discovery involving his Wacom tablet tracking his applications. The post struck a nerve and has since been widely distributed.

The research can be found here:

Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open