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Mozilla's Lightbeam tool will expose who is looking over your shoulder on the web 

DateFriday, October 25, 2013 at 01:07PM

The Independent

Just who is looking over your shoulder when you browse the Internet? Tomorrow, web users will be given a new tool to shine a light on the commercial organisations which track your every movement online.

Lightbeam, a download produced by Mozilla, the US free software community behind the popular Firefox browser, claims to be a “watershed” moment in the battle for web transparency.

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