California-based engineer and entrepreneur Lou Montulli said the original 'cookie' he created decades ago was intended to make life online easier by letting websites ...

“Sociable” is the latest commentary on important social media developments and trends from industry expert Andrew Hutchinson of Social Media Today. Google’s moving to the next stage of its program to ...

We recently wrote about TikTok’s extensive user data collection and an FCC commissioner's letter asking Apple and Google to ban the app from their app stores for violating their privacy policies.

Cookies may be one of the most maligned parts of the internet, but they weren’t always so notorious. Back in 1994, a young man named Lou Montulli developed the cookie as a way for website operators to ...

Cookies, also known as "HTTP cookies," are small text files that websites store on your computer to help track your activity. Most cookies are used to track what sites you're logged in to, and your ...

Recent research suggests web tracking could be highly accurate using information about a PC's GPU shader cores. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

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A company that correlates data about users across different websites to share with marketers is using unique IDs inserted by Verizon into mobile Web traffic to recreate tracking cookies that have been ...