Clearing your cookies is not enough to protect your privacy online. New research led by Texas A&M University has found that websites are covertly using browser fingerprinting—a method to uniquely ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Learn about sneaky browser tracking tricks and key browser tracking prevention tips for online privacy 2025—stay ahead with internet safety tips. Pixabay, Simon Browser tracking remains both a ...

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The Eighth Circuit is the latest U.S. appeals court to hear web-tracking cases. The panel weighed personal jurisdiction questions. The plaintiffs point to physical store locations in the state. The ...

California resident and serial plaintiff Jerry Aviles has sued RELX Inc., the parent company of LexisNexis and Lex Machina, alleging that it deployed web tracking software on its Lex Machina website ...

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 ...