Your phone camera has a unique fingerprint

[dom0]

You know, if this where a paper or article, okay. But this site has nada information about it, it's basically a four page DOWNLOAD button.

[domenukk]

The more people hit the download button, the more paper. It's based on this work: http://www.ws.binghamton.edu/fridrich/Research/EI7254-18.pdf

[laurentdc]

Reminds me of https://panopticlick.eff.org/

"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 159,551 tested so far."

[wlkr]

Is there a link anywhere to your privacy policy? I notice the app page says not to upload private images such as photos of faces but what happens to the data I do send? Are the images saved? Is my cameras fingerprint saved? Do you collect identifiable information from my phone? etc.

[domenukk]

See here: https://camfinger.com/info.html Tl;Dr: The phone type is saved and all the images (for the study), nothing more.

[kylek]

This reminds me of printer dots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography

[Washuu]

"Scroll for more." = Scrolling is broken; thus accessibility for those with disabilities is as well.

Can't highlight text. Keyboard navigation is busted due that as well.

Turning off Javascript results in a blank black page.

Basically a broken web site.

[hexane360]

Keyboard navigation and scrolling are working for me on FF.

[vxxzy]

I wonder what they will do with the data (the fingerprint). Will some three-letter-agency have access? (Of course they can demand access).

[domenukk]

Any page you can upload photos to may extract the fingerprint from there. We don't think anybody is interested in our dataset for this reason...

[TazeTSchnitzel]

No mass-produced item is exactly identically manufactured. Phone camera devices will be very subtly different. Apparently, it affects the image slightly, to the point you can “fingerprint” an individual camera just from the image data alone.

[domenukk]

App that extracts a unique pattern on your phone's cameras sensor. It's for a study.

[rasz_pl]

Have you ever wondered why Mr.Robot character Darlene used old VHS camera setup for the demands videos? Digital camera fingerprinting (beyond metadata) is a real thing.