If you are worried about your privacy online and being tracked by big corporations you might be interested in more about Browser Fingerprinting. A tracking method that collects detailed information ...

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

The specific combination of mundane information such as your plugins and system fonts can be used to create a “fingerprint” for your browser that could potentially uniquely identify you. To showcase ...

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 ...

Not all firms that track consumers' browsing behavior by using advanced browser fingerprinting techniques fail to honor "Do Not Track" (DNT) flags or opt-out preferences. So said James Brentano, VP of ...

These days, everyone on the internet already knows if you're a dog. Thanks to a newly developed tracking technique, they may soon know even more. Pennsylvania-based computer science professor Yinzhi ...

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 ...

A team of researchers from universities across the US has identified different fingerprinting techniques that can track users when they use different browsers installed on the same machine. Named ...

Researchers have recently developed the first reliable technique for websites to track visitors even when they use two or more different browsers. This shatters a key defense against sites that ...

You've probably heard the phrase "if you're not paying for it, you're the product." With free web services, that's especially true. Advertisers and data brokers ...

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 ...