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How Verizon, AT&T are using "supercookies" to track you online

Name: How Verizon, AT&T are using "supercookies" to track you online
Uploaded: 2014-11-05T07:42:00-0500
Duration: 3 min 11 s
Description: Verizon and AT&T are tracking cell phone users' online activity by deploying so-called "supercookies." Critics call them an attack on privacy. Tim Stevens, editor-at-large of CBS News partner CNET, joins "CBS This Morning" to explain the controversial cookies.

Verizon and AT&T are tracking cell phone users' online activity by deploying so-called "supercookies." Critics call them an attack on privacy. Tim Stevens, editor-at-large of CBS News partner CNET, joins "CBS This Morning" to explain the controversial cookies.