On March 18, the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’s) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) updated its guidance regarding the use of online tracking technologies. The American Hospital ...

One of the fastest-growing online businesses is the business of spying on Internet users by using sophisticated software to track movements through the Web, so that the information can be sold to ...

"Study Finds Broad Wariness Over Online Tracking" is the headline The New York Times put on its story about the results of a new survey by researchers at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.

How federal government should regulate online tracking. May 26, 2011— -- There was a time, when the World Wide Web was young, that many entrepreneurs counted on the idea they could make money the ...

In this June 4, 2018, photo Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering, speaks during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San ...

Every single move you make online can, and often is, tracked by online marketers and advertising networks that gather and use the information for serving up targeted advertisements. But the average ...

WhatsApp prides itself on its approach to privacy. But the user data that the Facebook-owned messaging app shares publicly is allowing dozens of outside apps to track aspects of WhatsApp users' online ...

Just when you thought we had hit rock bottom on all the ways the internet could snoop on us - no. We've sunk even lower. There's a tactic spreading across the web named after treatment usually ...

Apple and Google are pushing privacy changes, but a shift in digital tracking is giving some platforms a bigger advertising advantage. Credit...Israel Vargas Supported by By Brian X. Chen and Daisuke ...