Good news or bad news? It depends. Are you an internet user who cares about privacy? An internet publisher who cares about making money? Or somewhere in between? On Monday afternoon, Google shocked ...

All internet browsers are in the cookie business. Google Chrome’s cookies have a different flavor. In a recent announcement that has sent ripples through the privacy world, Google has decided not to ...

Google has begun phasing out third-party cookies that can track users across the Internet: The internet giant on Thursday disabled third-party cookies for 1% of Google Chrome users, or about 30 ...

Wherever you go on the internet, the same question pops up in one form or another: "Do you want to allow the use of cookies?" Where you click, where you spend time, what site you came from and when ...

Your Android phone is probably hoarding a ton of useless data from every website you've ever visited. Sure, some of it is useful, like keeping you logged into your ...

Cookies simplify our online lives, but it's important to understand what they are before accepting them. If you’re online all the time (and we’re willing to wager most people are), you’ve no doubt ...

For many years, privacy advocates have been sounding the alarm on the use of cookies to track, profile, and serve personalized ads to web users. The discussion has been especially acute over cookies ...

Your web browser is your window to the outside world, but it goes two ways—it’s also the window through which viruses, malware and other nasties can get access to ...