I learned about fingerprinting, and it blew my mind ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why it matters: Fingerprinting algorithms can provide a website with unique IDs on its visitors. It's a powerful tracking technology that requires equally powerful countermeasures, but sometimes ...

CHICAGO -- Chances are, you "Google" something several times a day. "When you have a random question, the first thing you pull up is Google," said Google user Christine Leos. But what are you giving ...

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 ...

Research shows the type of browser, plug-ins, and font data enable Web sites to create a unique portrait of most visitors Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox ...

Fingerprinting is a workaround. There are two main forms: active and passive fingerprinting. The first involves pinging your ...

Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox give Web sites enough information to get a unique picture of their visitors about 94 percent of the time, according to ...

You’ve heard me say it a hundred times: Clear your cookies, block third-party trackers, use private browsing. But here’s something new, something creepier. Now, even after nuking cookies from orbit ...

Freelance marketplaces run on trust. Clients need confidence that the person they hire is real, qualified, and accountable. Platforms need assurance that ...