Three recent federal court cases consider whether the use of third party trackers embedded in websites can be the basis of class action lawsuits alleging violations of statutes enacted before the ...

Three stealthy tracking mechanisms designed to avoid weaknesses in browser cookies pose potential privacy risks to Internet users, a new research paper has concluded. The methods — known as canvas ...

“Sunday is just a gritty day,” ace Lyndsey Grein said after the Ducks rode the coattails of her dominant day out in the circle. She shut-down... Internet Tracking and Cookies: Your Personal Data ...

Recent appellate rulings in the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Ninth and Third Circuits have curtailed session replay and web tracking class actions, holding that plaintiffs failed to establish ...

Seven reasons to care about online behavior tracking. Nov. 6, 2010— -- If you've never been targeted by an ad because of your online behavior, then you're probably just not paying much attention.

A blacklight can reveal all sorts of secrets that are invisible to the naked eye. So what if you had a virtual blacklight for the web—a way to shine an illuminating glow on the sites you visit and ...

In June 2025, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a proposed settlement with Healthline, a health information website, for its handling of personal ...

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 ...

The search giant will not end Chrome web cookies tracking after all. Delays, more delays, more delays and ... abandonment. That summarizes Google's third-party cookie deprecation game plan the last ...

Nearly all of your internet traffic will go through your Wi-Fi router. That's a lot of data, and it's certainly enough to make privacy a concern when picking one out. So, how can you find out if your ...

Since 2020, readers have used Blacklight, our pioneering website privacy inspector tool, to run more than 18 million scans. Previously, Blacklight detected tracking pixels from Google and Meta. Today, ...

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 ...