Three stealthy tracking mechanisms designed to avoid weaknesses in browser cookies pose potential privacy risks to Internet users, a new research paper has concluded. The methods — known as canvas ...

Plaintiffs’ firms are adapting the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), a 1960s-era wiretapping statute, to modern web technologies such as pixels, chatbots ...

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In its latest suit, Tauler Smith takes aim at the TikTok software that motorcycle-maker Kawasaki uses to identify locations and IP addresses of prospective customers. Major advertisers that use TikTok ...

In 2024, plaintiffs across the United States filed various class action cases related to web tracking technology employed by companies to enhance user experience on their websites and to improve the ...

Amid the booming age of video rentals that marked the 1980s, former President Ronald Reagan sought to protect the privacy of customers' video rental history and ...

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Trade Commission sent a joint letter to hospitals this summer warning them that using third-party analytics tools on their websites could ...