The report "Leaky Forms: A Study of Email and Password Exfiltration Before Form Submission" notes that email addresses—or identifiers derived from them—are known to be used by data brokers and advertisers for cross-site, cross-platform, and persistent identification of potentially unsuspecting individuals. In order to find out whether access to online forms is misused by online trackers, the authors of this new report present a measurement of email and password collection that occur before form submission on the top 100K websites.

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