Hospitals and healthcare organizations have come under fire for their use of third-party web tracking technologies and analytics software like Facebook parent company Meta’s Pixel tracker. These tech ...

In a relatively late effort to promote consumer privacy, a coalition of Internet-advertising companies issued on Tuesday guidelines for Web sites that use tiny electronic tags to track visitors' ...

Whether you know it or not, you've been auto-enrolled in a program called Custom Experience, a program that allows Verizon Wireless to keep an unwanted eye on your web activity. While not uncommon, ...

The web can be a scary place. The team that develops WebKit for Apple’s Safari browser is taking a strong stand against companies tracking people on the web. They call out tracking as an infringement ...

California-based engineer and entrepreneur Lou Montulli said the original 'cookie' he created decades ago was intended to make life online easier by letting websites ...

A few months on from a tracking controversy hitting privacy-centric search veteran, DuckDuckGo, the company has announced it’s been able to amend terms with Microsoft, its search syndication partner, ...

In June 2025, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a proposed settlement with Healthline, a health information website, for its handling of personal ...

The ability of OCR to enforce expansive portions of its controversial web tracking guidance has been severely limited. A federal district court ruled that the guidance exceeded the agency’s authority, ...

If you use Instagram, you should know that the platform performs web-tracking activities on you. These activities involve collecting your data from various third-party apps and websites that you visit ...

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