We have more tools to secure our identity online than ever before. You can ban cookies — the little pieces of information websites deposit in our browsers to ...

For more than a decade, the ad tech industry has tried to replace the term “fingerprinting” with euphemisms, like probabilistic modeling. But too bad for ad tech, because the term stuck. All of the ...

Apple has warned iPhone users to stop using Google Chrome. Microsoft has done the same. Now a new report exposes the extent ...

In late December, right before the holidays, Google announced a policy change that elicited both cheers and jeers. Starting on February 16, Google said it will no longer prohibit fingerprinting for ...

In the near future, your finger may no longer need to press up against an inkpad in order to provide your identity. A recent report from Wired takes a look at "contactless fingerprinting" technology, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...