Mozilla’s new User-Tracking Collusion Demo

At TED, Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs demonstrated their newest web tool called “Collusion”, a firefox extension that watches and finds all those little web bugs and cookies that track you across the internet.  But even more interesting is their interactive demo on their site (linked below) that visually shows the many networks working together to identify and track you in a nice animated graph layout.

Collusion Demo.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a computer graphics programmer and news junky that's been working in the field for the last 15 years. He's responsible for visualizations generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, ytnef, mullion support in ParaView, and VizWorld.com.