Cookies are small text files used by websites to save information about you and your visit. If cookies are disabled in your Google Chrome app, web browsing is probably a bit harder for you than it ...

An Internet Cookie is a small snippet of information sent from a web server to a user’s browser, which then stores it. On subsequent access to the same web server, this server can then read back this ...

Three months in and Europe's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is still a confusing mess. More than a thousand websites are still blocked across Europe and intrusive privacy popups have ...

Researchers in Scotland are developing a new kind of Web monitoring software that they claim can collect enormous amounts of data on Web surfers while remaining nearly undetectable. The technology ...

They aren't the only way advertisers and other companies track us, but third-party cookies are the most prevalent Web-tracking technology. Their benefit to users is questionable. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

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 ...

One year ago, researchers at the UC Berkeley School of Law called attention to a relatively new privacy threat: Web companies' surreptitious use of Flash cookies. While Flash cookies can have entirely ...

Back in December, documents revealed the NSA had been using Google’s ad-tracking cookies to follow browsers across the web, effectively coopting ad networks into surveillance networks. A new paper ...