{"id":4473,"date":"2012-05-03T10:04:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T17:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/?p=4473"},"modified":"2014-04-20T23:56:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T06:56:31","slug":"ted-u-talk-gary-kovacs-tracking-the-trackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2012\/05\/03\/ted-u-talk-gary-kovacs-tracking-the-trackers\/","title":{"rendered":"TED-U Talk: Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 28 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/pages\/view\/id\/5\">TED<\/a> University, Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs presented \u201cTracking the trackers.\u201d As part of that, he provided the crowd with a demo of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/collusion\/\">Collusion<\/a>, a tool that visualizes the entities that track our behavior on the Web.<\/p>\n<p>TED is a nonprofit devoted to \u201cIdeas Worth Spreading\u201d from the technology, entertainment and design worlds. 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