You can enable cookies on an iPhone with a few taps to help personalize and streamline your web browsing experience. Here's ...

Browser fingerprinting is a sneaky way advertisers and others track you online. We explain how this surveillance technique ...

You can enable cookies on an iPad with a few taps to help personalize and streamline your web browsing experience. Here's how to do it.

In addition to having multimedia and other rich content, Web sites are becoming a lot more interactive and have areas where people can sign in to user accounts for access to settings, discussion ...

"Police blotter" is a weekly CNET News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: A Texas man says the timestamp of cookies on his Web browser proves he was actually online and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the business of personal data. It may raise hackles to think that U.S. intelligence officials might be monitoring ...

The National Security Agency's Internet site has been placing files on visitors' computers that can track their Web surfing activity despite strict federal rules banning most of them. These files, ...

Attention, webmasters: Insecure website cookies set via HTTP requests may allow a remote attacker to obtain private information from a victim's HTTPS session, warns DHS-CERT. The problem is this: A ...

A recent addition to America Online's privacy policy clears the way for the company to use online tracking tools, including cookies and Web bugs, to compile anonymous data about its members and ...

Having previously revealed the upcoming demise of cookies in its platform, Google pledged this week that it won’t swap in a similar web tracker. But that doesn’t mean there are no other plans in the ...