Our phones know where we are and they know where we have been—the problem is they have a nasty habit of sharing that information with others. And the latest location tracking nightmare to hit phone ...

Google might not be completely ready to give up website cookies just yet, but the company is certainly investigating alternatives like a user-tracking ad platform built into one of the most popular ...

App Tracking Transparency has not eliminated tracking. What it has done is reduce its reach, increase its cost, and give ...

STOCKHOLM, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority against Mozilla accusing the Firefox browser ...

Browser extensions have become an integral part of our browsers. Whether they are ad blockers or anti-viruses, they enhance our everyday productivity and significantly improve our convenience. Since ...

We're so attached to our smartphones that they've become like another limb, and the boundary between our physical and digital lives has increasingly blurred. You might even be reading this from a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Republished on December 21 with Google’s proposals to change search ...

Do you ever feel like your Android device tracks you more often than it should? At this point, it's an open secret that smartphones track their users and use the data for personalizing ads, among ...

Google Chrome launched its built-in tracking and ad-curation platform, “Privacy Sandbox,” on Sept. 7 for general availability, according to a company blog post ...

Link History in the Facebook iPhone app can be useful if you don't mind Meta tracking you. Image: Meta/Cult of Mac To absolutely no one’s surprise, Meta came up with a new way to track its users.