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If 2025 was the year website-tracking claims became impossible to ignore, 2026 is the year those cases began to mature. Courts are looking ...

Earlier this month, the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”), the organization that has jurisdiction over enforcement of the Health Insurance ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Remember Apple’s flock of birds swooping around, spying on users as they browse the web, a thinly disguised attack on Google’s ongoing Chrome tracking nightmare. Well, despite promises to the contrary ...

The security of our personal data is facing unprecedented challenges. In today’s world, nearly every technological device we use be it an application or a gadget is gathering our data. These collected ...

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California-based engineer and entrepreneur Lou Montulli said the original 'cookie' he created decades ago was intended to make life online easier by letting websites ...

Major retailers are quietly becoming some of the most sophisticated trackers of online shoppers in ways that benefit not just themselves but their ad partners, too. And for consumers who want to cut ...

ChatGPT’s new privacy policy states how the company uses cookies for tracking, to turn free users into paying subscribers.