Macy's, Lowes and Dell are among popular U.S. online retailers with the most web trackers gathering personal information on visitors, while Walmart, Apple and Nike were among those with the fewest, ...

Three recent federal court cases consider whether the use of third party trackers embedded in websites can be the basis of class action lawsuits alleging violations of statutes enacted before the ...

Perhaps no use case better exemplifies the rapidly evolving privacy law landscape in the US than the legal framework surrounding companies’ use of cookies, pixels, and other web trackers. Gone are the ...

The world of web behavioral tracking is a mess. Advertisers are eager to make it more effective, governments want to regulate it, and web users are generally horrified of its potential. But out of ...

Jules joined the Android Police team in 2019. He currently produces videos, creates art for our stories, and edits our podcast. Before that, he wrote features and news, managed our weekend content, ...

Cookies are data artifacts saved by web browsers on our internet-connected devices. They keep a record of the websites you visit, and in the case of first-party cookies, they're important for certain ...

The Biden administration has updated its guidance on the use of third-party web trackers to exclude certain types of website visits from meeting its criteria for a protected health information (PHI) ...

Kaspersky‘s latest analysis of the 25 most prevalent web tracking services, including Google services, New Relic, Microsoft, revealed over 38 billion instances of web trackers collecting user behavior ...

An international research collaboration between IMDEA Networks’ Internet Analytics Group, headed by Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Prof. Gunes Acar (Radboud University, NL), and Tim Vlummens (KU Leuven, ...

This story was originally published by The Markup, now a part of CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletter. State-run health care websites around the country, meant to provide a simple way to shop for ...