{
  "id": 3296542,
  "title": "China's AliExpress caught using an ‘audio fingerprint’ trick to track visitors",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/chinas-aliexpress-caught-using-an-audio-fingerprint-trick-to-track",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-25T14:31:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/chinas-aliexpress-caught-using-audio-trick-to-track-visitors-discovered-after-it-broke-researchers-headphones/articleshow/133514954.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Chinese retailer AliExpress has been found using an audio trick to fingerprint visitors. This technique analyzes inaudible audio signals processed by web browsers. Researcher Matthew Callaghan discovered this method after noticing his phone audio stopped playing. Firefox and Chrome browsers now have protections against this specific audio fingerprinting method. AliExpress employs multiple other…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}