You've probably heard the phrase "if you're not paying for it, you're the product." With free web services, that's especially true. Advertisers and data brokers ...

The specific combination of mundane information such as your plugins and system fonts can be used to create a “fingerprint” for your browser that could potentially uniquely identify you. To showcase ...

One of the perks of using Chrome is a wide assortment of browser extensions at your disposal. Including themes and apps, there are over 200,000 of them in the Chrome Web Store. There's strength in ...

Clearing your cookies is not enough to protect your privacy online. New research led by Texas A&M University found that websites are covertly using browser fingerprinting — a method to uniquely ...

If you are worried about your privacy online and being tracked by big corporations you might be interested in more about Browser Fingerprinting. A tracking method that collects detailed information ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Incognia, the innovator of next-generation identity solutions for secure digital experiences, has added advanced account takeover and bot ...

A browser's digital fingerprint reveals a wealth of information and can potentially be used to profile and identify a user The Electronic Frontier Foundation has created an on-line tool that details ...

But the same GPU can also be abused to potentially track browser activity on the web, according to new research. In a new paper, a team of academics at Israel's Ben-Gurion University, France's ...

You’ve heard me say it a hundred times: Clear your cookies, block third-party trackers, use private browsing. But here’s something new, something creepier. Now, even after nuking cookies from orbit ...