Web cookies were originally designed to protect users privacy, according to the man behind the technology, not act as a tool to help large tech firms snoop on people. California-based engineer and ...

Turning off third-party cookies could also unintentionally punish small websites by shutting them out of targeted ads that make money, giving even more power to tech giants such as Apple, Google and ...

Ever visit one website and when you go to a completely different website, an ad pops up for what you just browsed for? Well, that’s not your imagination. Your browsing activity was tracked across the ...

Sachin Kumar, Vice President, Technology, eSec Forte Technologies. Cookies are trackers that are placed on a user’s computer by a website or application. These trackers collect data that is used to ...

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 ...

Download the MP3 audio version of this story here, or sign up to get all of Slate’s free daily podcasts. Cookies are simply text files sent by a Web site to your computer to track your movements ...

A couple of years ago privacy advocates were bringing cookies, and the privacy issues related to them, to the attention of the general public. Last summer the focus was on web bugs and this year the ...

The web is overrun with cookies, and not the tasty kind. These small pieces of code follow you around the web and help firms build up profiles about your interests. Stalked from website-to-website by ...

Tracking cookies – those bite-size snippets of code that log your internet behavior – come in as many forms as recipes for chocolate chip cookies. They are ubiquitous on all commercial websites, but ...