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If I offered you an alternative to conventional tracking cookies on the web, you might be interested, especially if you care ...

An online advertising clearinghouse relied on by Google, Yahoo, and Facebook is using controversial cookies that come back from the dead to track the Web surfing of Verizon customers. The company, ...

An ad-serving firm analyzed 20 advertisers and more than 5 billion impressions in fourth-quarter 2017, and found 64% of their tracking cookies were either blocked or deleted by web browsers. The ...

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 ...

What you do on the internet is being tracked. Almost every webpage you visit has trackers that log where you go and what you do while you're there. Third-party ads often contain tracking cookies that ...

Google's Chrome team is feeling pressure from competitors over ad tracking. Apple has long offered industry-leading protection against tracking cookies, while Mozilla recently announced that Firefox ...

Nvidia Corp. fails to remove tracking cookies from its website even when visitors indicate through a consent banner that they ...

Senator Jay Rockefeller, chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, said today he would hold a hearing to look into reports that Facebook is using cookies to track users even ...

European news sites have reduced the number of third-party tracking cookies by 22 percent in the three months since the introduction of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), according to a ...

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 ...

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