{"id":217,"date":"2012-05-03T10:04:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T10:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/?p=217"},"modified":"2012-06-13T16:25:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T16:25:02","slug":"ted-u-talk-gary-kovacs-tracking-the-trackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/2012\/05\/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. On TED.com, they make\u00a0the best talks and performances available to the world, for free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTracking the trackers\u201d is now posted on TED.com. Check it out!<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" height=\"374\" width=\"526\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talk\/stream\/2012U\/Blank\/GaryKovacs_2012U-320k.mp4&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/GaryKovacs_2012U-embed.jpg&amp;vw=512&amp;vh=288&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=1436&amp;lang=&amp;introDuration=15330&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=830&amp;adKeys=talk=gary_kovacs_tracking_the_trackers;year=2012;theme=what_s_next_in_tech;theme=not_business_as_usual;theme=technology_history_and_destiny;event=TED2012;tag=Internet;tag=business;tag=technology;&amp;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\"><\/param><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"pluginspace\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/param><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" flashvars=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talk\/stream\/2012U\/Blank\/GaryKovacs_2012U-320k.mp4&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/GaryKovacs_2012U-embed.jpg&amp;vw=512&amp;vh=288&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=1436&amp;lang=&amp;introDuration=15330&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=830&amp;adKeys=talk=gary_kovacs_tracking_the_trackers;year=2012;theme=what_s_next_in_tech;theme=not_business_as_usual;theme=technology_history_and_destiny;event=TED2012;tag=Internet;tag=business;tag=technology;&amp;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" pluginspace=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" height=\"374\" width=\"526\"><\/embed><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 28 at TED University, Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs presented \u201cTracking the trackers.\u201d As part of that, he provided the crowd with a demo of Collusion, a tool that &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/2012\/05\/ted-u-talk-gary-kovacs-tracking-the-trackers\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}