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 ...

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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 ...

This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. 2023 saw a rise in class action litigation related to internet tracking technology employed by ...

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 ...

Learn about sneaky browser tracking tricks and key browser tracking prevention tips for online privacy 2025—stay ahead with internet safety tips. Pixabay, Simon Browser tracking remains both a ...

Imagine that every click, search, and scroll you do on the internet is quietly building a dossier on you one you never agreed to build. That’s the state of the modern web tracking, where a cookie that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Republished on February 8th with new analysis into Google’s tracking ...