Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I have Avast Premium Security, which notifies me periodically of a tracking cookie, in anticipation of me ...

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 ...

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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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Google has delayed its third-party cookie-tracking termination by nearly two years. What does this all mean for marketers? Google’s cookie execution will have to wait. Another two years, in fact. The ...

Google’s attempt to snuff out third-party web tracking cookies is moving along. The company announced today that its Privacy Sandbox APIs will be available to all ...