How adobe preserve privacy of user
Adobe Flash Player provides very little information that would reveal anything about a particular user or his or her machine. In addition to the basic operating system and browser information provided by web browsers, Flash Player provides information about the multimedia capabilities of the machine.
Flash Player provides this information to help developers create experiences that work well for everyone. For example, if the creators of a classical music website can detect that a machine can’t play sound, they might be able to let the user know why he or she can’t hear any sound on the site.
Here’s a summary of client machine information that Flash Player makes available to Flash-based content:
- “User agent” string: Provides basic information about platform, operating system, and browser
- System.capabilities ActionScript API: Provides information about the multimedia capabilities of the client
- Camera and microphone access: Records streams of data from cameras and microphones (and is controlled by the users’ settings)
User agent string
The user agent string describes basic information about the browser and the operating system that visitors to websites are using. Here’s an example of the user agent string:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; IE 5.5; Windows 98)
