Case Study
~275 Trackers Per Employee Per Workday. The #1 Data Harvester Was Chinese-Owned.
When Fortune 500 enterprises deploy Disconnect through their existing security infrastructure, they discover the scale of employee tracking that traditional tools miss. Approximately 34 tracker connections per employee per hour, including domains subject to foreign intelligence laws.
The Problem
Large enterprises invest heavily in network security, endpoint protection, and identity management. But commercial trackers operate beneath these defenses, embedded in ordinary websites and business applications that employees use every day. This tracking data feeds the advertising ecosystem, which sophisticated attackers exploit to identify, profile, and target individual employees.
Existing security platforms are not designed for comprehensive tracker protection. They handle hundreds of security features; tracker blocking is one small checkbox among many. The result: employees at high-value organizations are tracked thousands of times per week by domains they never consented to, including infrastructure subject to foreign intelligence laws.
Deployment Results
Disconnect Cloud Privacy Plus deployed via existing security infrastructure. No new agents, no endpoint software, no disruption to employees or workflows.
~275
Trackers blocked per employee per workday
~34
Tracker connections blocked per employee per hour
+50K
Trackers blocked per employee per year
39%
Less data usage with protection enabled (IEEE peer-reviewed)
Foreign Intelligence Exposure
Across enterprise deployments, the most frequently blocked tracker domains consistently include infrastructure owned by Chinese technology companies. Under China's 2017 National Intelligence Law, these corporations are required to share collected data with state intelligence services upon request.
- Chinese-owned tracker domains consistently appear among the top data harvesters in enterprise environments
- A single tracker domain can generate over 100 connections per employee per week, invisible to traditional security tools
- The DOJ's Bulk Sensitive Data Rule now restricts data transfers to adversary nations with penalties up to $368,136 per transaction
Complementing Existing Security Infrastructure
Enterprise security platforms handle hundreds of features. Disconnect specializes exclusively in tracker protection. Different depth of coverage, not a competing product.
12-14x
more trackers blocked than leading security platforms' best practice policies
27x
more trackers blocked than default security platform configurations
"Quite amazing."
— Enterprise portfolio manager describing Disconnect's performance in their production environment
Zero Disruption
<0.1%
of blocked domains required whitelisting, resolved same day
0
employee complaints about browsing speed or usability
2.4x
faster page loads with Disconnect protection enabled
Environmental Impact
Every blocked tracker is infrastructure that doesn't load. Less bandwidth, less processing, less energy consumed by data centers collecting and storing surveillance data. At enterprise scale, the impact is measurable.
39%
Reduction in data usage with Disconnect protection (IEEE peer-reviewed study)
20+ tons
Estimated CO2 reduction per year at full enterprise deployment
ESG
Quantifiable sustainability metric for corporate reporting
The Broader Threat Landscape
42%
of all web requests on U.S. Army networks were to tracker domains, according to a study by West Point and the Army Cyber Institute
178T
real-time bidding broadcasts per year across the U.S. and Europe. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties called this "the biggest data breach ever recorded, repeated every day"
83%
of CISOs report increased attacks targeting individual employees
4,000+
data brokers maintain profiles on 500 million "high value" users worldwide
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