Big Brother has a new secret weapon, and he's using it to watch your every Internet move. Computer files called Flash cookies may have told him which websites you visited this morning, what purchases ...

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When you browse the web, you would notice that some websites seem to know your preferences as you’re instantly prompted with ads that are tailored to your interests, right upon loading their site or ...

Web Tracking is not the same as website tracking. The latter refers to analyzing things about any website. That’s done using different tools available to webmasters. Web Tracking is about tracking you ...

Last week, we looked at the current state of Internet tracking, where companies spy on your physical location and record your activities, building profiles on you that can be used for both good and ...

Users concerned with online privacy have been struggling for years to come up with a solution to being tracked on the Web. Such users either want to avoid irritating, targeted ads based on browsing ...

In a lengthy new complaint expected to be filed Thursday with the Federal Trade Commission, the Center for Digital Democracy and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) say they're concerned ...

Many people have been waking up over the last 24 hours to find that they have received a payment of around $40 from Facebook. The first question people have is whether the payment is legitimate. And ...

Microsoft is introducing a feature to Internet Explorer 9 that gives users control over how sites can and cannot track their activity. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before ...

You are in a fishbowl, fully exposed to all the watchful eyes on the internet. Big Tech has every click, every purchase, every “like” — going back at least a decade — cataloged and replicated across ...

WASHINGTON — The White House wants a "Do Not Track" option put on websites to give consumers greater control of their personal information online but Internet companies and privacy groups are at odds ...