30. COWL – CONFINEMENT WITH ORIGIN WEB LEBELS

♤ Researchers have built a new system that protects Internet users’ privacy. It also helps to increase the flexibility for web developers to build web applications that combine data from different web sites, dramatically improving the safety of surfing the web.

♤ The system called “Confinement with Origin Web Labels” (COWL) works with Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome web browsers and prevents malicious codes in websites from leaking sensitive information to unauthorised parties.