Back in 2009, a tool showed up on the Internet to tell you "what the Internet knows about you." It was a website that demonstrated how your browsing history could be sniffed-- by sniffing yours and ...

Manually or automatically wiping your browsing history is a well-established way of protecting your privacy and making sure the digital trail you leave behind you is as short as possible—but it's ...

You may not give your search history much thought, but by practicing good browser hygiene, you can help maintain your privacy online. Your computer's search history ...

Clearing your browsing history in Chrome for mobile is clear cut, but viewing it is not. We'll show you how to do both. Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an IT ...

It seems simple enough, you Google your latest symptoms to see if your condition warrants a visit to the doctor or just some rest and relaxation. Suddenly, you are inundated with ads from every ...

The whole point of using Chrome’s incognito mode is that it leaves no trace of your browsing activity. Whether you’re using incognito for prurient reasons or as a security precaution, sometimes it ...

An anonymous reader wants to erase tracks that show he’s visited certain web sites, but without erasing his entire surfing history. Whether this will be easy, difficult, or impossible depends on what ...

You’d have to be living under a rock to have missed the current insanity over the repeal of proposed broadband privacy rules which swiftly made its way through Congress and gained the signature of ...

When you browse the web using Internet Explorer, or any web browser for that matter, it stores files and data pertaining to your visits, like Cookies, Cache, Passwords, History, images, etc. To remove ...

The Attorney-General's Department yesterday confirmed to ZDNet Australia that it had been in discussions with industry on implementing a data retention regime in Australia. Such a regime would require ...