If you are worried about your privacy online and being tracked by big corporations you might be interested in more about Browser Fingerprinting. A tracking method that collects detailed information ...

It doesn't do it quite how you think though.

Clearing your cookies is not enough to protect your privacy online. New research led by Texas A&M University found that websites are covertly using browser fingerprinting — a method to uniquely ...

Why it matters: Fingerprinting algorithms can provide a website with unique IDs on its visitors. It's a powerful tracking technology that requires equally powerful countermeasures, but sometimes ...

CHICAGO -- Chances are, you "Google" something several times a day. "When you have a random question, the first thing you pull up is Google," said Google user Christine Leos. But what are you giving ...

Research shows the type of browser, plug-ins, and font data enable Web sites to create a unique portrait of most visitors Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox ...

You've probably heard the phrase "if you're not paying for it, you're the product." With free web services, that's especially true. Advertisers and data brokers ...

Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox give Web sites enough information to get a unique picture of their visitors about 94 percent of the time, according to ...

You’ve heard me say it a hundred times: Clear your cookies, block third-party trackers, use private browsing. But here’s something new, something creepier. Now, even after nuking cookies from orbit ...

In my previous post, I showed how LinkedIn detects browser extensions as part of its client-side fingerprinting strategy. That post did surprisingly well, maybe because people enjoy reading about ...