The National Security Agency analyzes tracking cookies used by online advertisers in order to find and target surveillance subjects, according to The Washington Post and documents provided by Edward ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I have Avast Premium Security, which notifies me periodically of a tracking cookie, in anticipation of me ...

Earlier this month, the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”), the organization that has jurisdiction over enforcement of the Health Insurance ...

Remember Apple’s flock of birds swooping around, spying on users as they browse the web, a thinly disguised attack on Google’s ongoing Chrome tracking nightmare. Well, despite promises to the contrary ...

We are creatures of habit. A lot of contemporary research has borne this out. Whether it’s making time in the morning to exercise or relaxing with a few drinks after work, the simple repetition of an ...

California-based engineer and entrepreneur Lou Montulli said the original 'cookie' he created decades ago was intended to make life online easier by letting websites ...

Google will not make any to changes to how third-party cookies work on the Chrome browser at all. Anthony Chavez, Google VP for Privacy Sandbox, has announced that ...

Google wants to phase out support for third-party cookies from Chrome, which should be good news for privacy-conscious internet users who don't want to be tracked online. But Google still wants to ...

Update: Google has now confirmed the delay, writing in a blog post that its engagement with U.K. regulators over the so-called “Privacy Sandbox” means support for ...

The security of our personal data is facing unprecedented challenges. In today’s world, nearly every technological device we use be it an application or a gadget is gathering our data. These collected ...

“Sociable” is the latest commentary on important social media developments and trends from industry expert Andrew Hutchinson of Social Media Today. Google’s moving to the next stage of its program to ...

Mozilla said its Total Cookie Protection feature in Firefox 86 prevents invasive, cross-site cookie tracking. The Mozilla Foundation has released its latest version of the Firefox browser, which comes ...