Most of us have gotten used to the little privacy pop-ups that appear when we visit a website. We click “accept,” “reject,” ...

For more than a decade, the ad tech industry has tried to replace the term “fingerprinting” with euphemisms, like probabilistic modeling. But too bad for ad tech, because the term stuck. All of the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chances are, you "Google" something several times a day. "When you have a random question, the first thing you pull up is Google," said Google user Christine Leos. But what are you ...

In late December, right before the holidays, Google announced a policy change that elicited both cheers and jeers. Starting on February 16, Google said it will no longer prohibit fingerprinting for ...

We have more tools to secure our identity online than ever before. You can ban cookies — the little pieces of information websites deposit in our browsers to ...

A report alleges that LinkedIn, the professional networking platform owned by Microsoft, scans more than 6,000 Chrome browser ...

The Internal Revenue Service is planning to mandate a new electronic fingerprinting process for e-file applications for tax practitioners starting Sept. 25. Processing Content In an email Wednesday to ...

Apple will soon start cracking down on Apps that collect data on users' devices in order to track them (aka "fingerprinting"), according to an article on its developer site spotted by 9to5Mac.

CaliberMind's new flexible opt-in fingerprinting capability suite lets GTM teams choose visitor identification strategy ...

We used to think of fingerprinting as simply placing your finger on an ink pad and then rolling it on paper to obtain an identifiable mark that would distinguish you from everyone else on the planet.

In the near future, your finger may no longer need to press up against an inkpad in order to provide your identity. A recent report from Wired takes a look at "contactless fingerprinting" technology, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Just when you thought we had hit rock bottom on all the ways the internet could snoop on us — no. We’ve sunk even lower. There’s a tactic spreading across ...