Researchers have built a new system that protects internet users' privacy and dramatically improves the safety of surfing the web.
Researchers from University College London, Stanford Engineering, Google, Chalmers University of Technology and Mozilla Research have built the system called `Confinement with Origin Web Labels', or COWL.
It works with Mozilla's Firefox and the opensource version of Chrome web browsers and prevents malicious code in a web site from leaking sensitive information to unauthorized parties, while allowing code in a web site to display content drawn from multiple web sites an essential function for modern, feature-rich web applications.