fingerprinting
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6.1
- noun
- /ˈfɪŋɡərˌprɪntɪŋ/
- Texting
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huellaje digital
- With fingerprinting, advertisers can gather data about users without relying on cookies.
- browser fingerprinting
- canvas fingerprinting
- digital fingerprinting
Examples
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A contrasting approach (amplified fragment length polymorphisms, or AFLPs) permits rapid fingerprinting of entire genomes without any prior sequence data.
Academic text (2009) -
These devices use electronic fingerprinting to look for changes in both the meter and transmitter characteristics.
Academic text (2003) -
Ahead are services that include fingerprinting, caching, bidirectional linking, categorization, tracking, tagging, and semantic analysis.
Blog text (19) -
Many websites use fingerprinting to track user behavior across the internet.
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Digital fingerprinting helps companies create unique identities for devices visiting their sites.
Compounds
- Specialized
1
7.7
A way police use to find which gun fired a bullet by matching marks on bullets and casings
- Specialized
1
4.1
A test that uses DNA from blood or saliva to find who someone is
- Specialized
A way to identify the gun that fired a bullet by examining marks on the bullet and its case
Surface Forms
Morphology
fingerprinting = fingerprint (opaque) = finger + print + ing
The form is transparently based on 'fingerprint' + '-ing', but the digital-tracking sense is a metaphorical extension rather than literal fingerprinting.
Etymology
Fingerprinting for online tracking borrows the simple idea of finger + print: many small device details together form a digital 'print'. So digital fingerprinting means collecting these small 'marks' like fonts and screen size to make a unique ID for a device or user.