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The world of web behavioral tracking is a mess. Advertisers are eager to make it more effective, governments want to regulate it, and web users are generally horrified of its potential. But out of ...

When you access the internet with a standard web browser, marketers can mine your data and target you for sales. The top privacy-focused browsers help you foil their efforts with tracking protection ...

Andre O'Connor, left, walks through setting up a Chromebook account at the Bridgeport public library main branch on Dec. 5, 2022. As a digital navigator at the library, O'Connor provides one-on-one ...

Imagine that every click, search, and scroll you do on the internet is quietly building a dossier on you one you never agreed to build. That’s the state of the modern web tracking, where a cookie that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy. Republished on February 8th with new analysis into Google’s ...

Google dressed up privacy with a shiny name.

A state court granted defendant Colquitt Regional Medical Center a motion to dismiss a web-tracking class action that accused the hospital of unlawfully collecting patients' HIPAA-protected medical ...

Mozilla’s Firefox web browser was the first to implement a Do Not Track option, and now appears to be the first browser to remove it. This option would send a website a request that a user didn’t wish ...