Browser fingerprinting is a method to track user activity and store their information, including time zones, locale, browsers, and more, to identify them, among others uniquely. This technique is a ...

Web tracking is the practice by which websites and third-party companies collect information about users’ online activity. The basis of tracking is the accurate identification of users – you are ...

Worried about your online privacy? If not, you should be: there's big money to be made in understanding where people go on the web, when, and why, and companies are falling over themselves to find new ...

Academics have come up with a new technique that leaks data about users' browsers; enough to defeat anti-fingerprinting systems and privacy-preserving browser extensions to provide ways to identify ...

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 ...

You’re concerned about your online privacy, and you do all the right things to keep from being tracked around the Web: purge your cookies regularly, clean out Flash ...

The Brave browser is working on a feature that will randomize its "fingerprint" every time a user visits a website in an attempt to preserve the user's privacy. Brave's decision comes as online ...

Forget cookies–even the ultrasneaky, Flash-based “super cookies.” A new type of tracking may identify you far more accurately than any cookie–and you may never know it was there. The method pulls ...