Hospitals and healthcare organizations have come under fire for their use of third-party web tracking technologies and analytics software like Facebook parent company Meta’s Pixel tracker. These tech ...

Valentine’s Day this year marks a six-day “weekend,” with the date-night holiday dropping on a Wednesday, and President’s Day happening on the following Monday. Deadline’s early tracking has One Love ...

Whether you know it or not, you've been auto-enrolled in a program called Custom Experience, a program that allows Verizon Wireless to keep an unwanted eye on your web activity. While not uncommon, ...

The ability of OCR to enforce expansive portions of its controversial web tracking guidance has been severely limited. A federal district court ruled that the guidance exceeded the agency’s authority, ...

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 ...

The web can be a scary place. The team that develops WebKit for Apple’s Safari browser is taking a strong stand against companies tracking people on the web. They call out tracking as an infringement ...

A few months on from a tracking controversy hitting privacy-centric search veteran, DuckDuckGo, the company has announced it’s been able to amend terms with Microsoft, its search syndication partner, ...

In June 2025, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a proposed settlement with Healthline, a health information website, for its handling of personal ...

If you use Instagram, you should know that the platform performs web-tracking activities on you. These activities involve collecting your data from various third-party apps and websites that you visit ...

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Apple’s long-awaited iOS 17 update for iPhones lands today with a number of new and improved security features. Many of the new features are aimed at protecting iPhone owners who are at greater risk ...

The search giant will not end Chrome web cookies tracking after all. Delays, more delays, more delays and ... abandonment. That summarizes Google's third-party cookie deprecation game plan the last ...