Cookies may be one of the most maligned parts of the internet, but they weren’t always so notorious. Back in 1994, a young man named Lou Montulli developed the cookie as a way for website operators to ...

Last week, Turn signed a consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission after the government alleged that the company made false representations to consumers. In the proposed settlement, Turn agreed ...

After nearly 20 years, the era of web-based "cookies" appears headed for an end, as companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft explore new ways to track Internet users' habits, from desktop PCs to ...

The diet app MyFitnessPal must face some privacy claims over its alleged failure to honor web users' request to reject ...

For the last few months, wireless carrier Verizon has been testing out a new ad tracking technology that security analysts are calling a supercookie. Like its cousin, the standard browser cookie, ...

Flash cookies placed by many of the most popular Web sites are being used to track site visitors, even going so far as to re-create http tracking cookies after they’re deleted by privacy-conscious ...

The same Web browser cookies used to track consumers on the Internet are being used by the National Security Agency to track surveillance targets, according to a Washington Post report. The cookies -- ...

For decades, “cookies” have been tracking you around the web. They’re the snippets of code that uniquely identify your browser and allow those shoe ads to follow you from site to site after you visit ...

From today Firefox users who update to the latest version of the browser will find a pro-privacy setting flipped for them on desktop and Android smartphones, assuming they didn’t already have the anti ...