Re: [keycloak-dev] Device fingerprinting

From what I briefly read about fingerprinting and its legality it mentions

Hi everyone I haven’t managed to find an open source solution to device fingerprinting which gives us everything we need. This library however gets us most of the way there http://valve.github.io/fingerprintjs2 < http://valve.github.io/fingerprintjs2>;. It doesn’t give us enough information to distinguish between a desktop and a laptop but it will let us correlate devices and we can distinguish between a PC, a tablet and a phone. We can also get the OS, Browser and Versions from the user agent string. I have taken a look at a few sites the track device sessions. Apple can tell the difference between an iMac, a MacBook, an iPad and an iPhone. Facebook, GitHub, Google, LinkedIn and Pinterest don’t distinguish between an iMac and a MacBook. So maybe the library above is enough. I also came across the following article from the EFF which casts doubt on the legality of digital fingerprinting in Europe. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/gdpr-and-browser-fingerprinting-how... < https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/gdpr-and-browser-fingerprinting-how... > Does anyone have any input on any of this? Is there a better library that I have missed? Should we stick to parsing the user agent to avoid potential problems with GDPR? Regards Doug _______________________________________________ keycloak-dev mailing list keycloak-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/keycloak-dev