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PEOPLE WHO have watched porn online this year will have their browsing history and name be made public, a US blogger has claimed.

Brett Thomas, a San Francisco-based software engineer, says if you’ve watched porn online in 2015, “even in Incognito mode”, you should expect that at some point your porn viewing history will be publicly released and attached to your name”.

Thomas, a Harvard graduate, explained that standard web tracking could leave online users vulnerable to cyber attacks.

He said: “Every traditional website that you visit saves enough data to link your user account to your browser fingerprint, either directly or via third parties.”

What this means is that if a “malicious party obtained identifiable access logs for just one of the websites that know your name, and view logs for just one of the adult websites you’ve visited, it could infer with very high probability – beyond plausible deniability – a list of porn you’ve viewed.”

In August last year a number of naked photographs of more than 100 celebrities were leaked online by a hacker onto the website 4chan.

“I think the next big internet privacy crisis could expose the private and potentially embarrassing personal data of regular people to their neighbours,” Thomas wrote.

He added: “At any time, somebody could post a website that allows you to search anybody by email or facebook username and view their porn browsing history. All that’s needed are two nominal data breaches and an enterprising teenager that wants to create havoc.” – Voice

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