Google is busy rolling out a new kind of web tracking cookie to give the company an even deeper insight into individual online browsing habits. So what’s so special about how this cookie ...

Police blotter: Web cookies become defendant's alibi Texas man says Web browser's cookies prove he was at home online, not at his ex-wife's residence.

The problem for marketers is that some users set their browsers to reject cookies or quickly extinguish them. And mobile phones, which are taking an increasing chunk of the Web usage, do not use ...

A recent addition to America Online's privacy policy clears the way for the company to use online tracking tools, including cookies and Web bugs, to compile anonymous data about its members and ...

Normally, the site uses temporary, permissible cookies that are automatically deleted when users close their Web browsers, he said, but the software in use shipped with persistent cookies already on.

Sometimes Web sites will malfunction because a setting that is stored in a cookie is not working properly. In this case, though you can remove all cookies, a more specific fix would be to root out ...

Criteo’s mobile Web solution (the company has said it is still in the process of developing a branded name for the product) allows marketers to serve personalized ads to consumers through Web browsers ...

Some web browser vendors have noted that previous attempts at more secure cookie management have been foiled due to the lack of a widely implemented standard. DHS-CERT explained that a complete ...

The death of cookies in digital marketing raises questions about privacy and data tracking in the online world.

Cookies are a privacy nightmare for all of us, but Google's plan to eradicate them could cause just as many problems as it solves.