Users concerned with online privacy have been struggling for years to come up with a solution to being tracked on the Web. Such users either want to avoid irritating, targeted ads based on browsing ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Whenever you do anything on the internet, you’re being tracked. As ...

WASHINGTON — The White House wants a "Do Not Track" option put on websites to give consumers greater control of their personal information online but Internet companies and privacy groups are at odds ...

Apple in recent years has made privacy a cornerstone of the iPhone user experience. In fact, Apple's privacy page goes so far as to state that "privacy is a fundamental human right." Company ...

A Federal Trade Commission official on Thursday issued a warning of sorts to Internet companies: stop collecting information about your users by default, and give them shorter, more conspicuous ...

Maybe you’ve heard of Netvibes. Fact is, the company has been around for a few years, with some pretty major structural changes through that time. At first, it was a start page (think iGoogle), then ...

Microsoft is introducing a feature to Internet Explorer 9 that gives users control over how sites can and cannot track their activity. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before ...

You are in a fishbowl, fully exposed to all the watchful eyes on the internet. Big Tech has every click, every purchase, every “like” — going back at least a decade — cataloged and replicated across ...

An academic paper published last month has shed new light on a new user tracking technique that takes advantage of a legitimate mechanism associated with the TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol ...