Last week, Microsoft announced that it would build something called “Tracking Protection” into the next edition of its Internet Explorer Web browser (IE9). Although Microsoft’s proposal got a lot of ...

I had my children join Life360 so I could track their whereabouts, but they started tracking me too. Whenever I was at the store, they would know and send me a list of things they needed. By tracking ...

Protecting user's data from websites' tracking comes at the cost of advertising revenue. If you are a consumer, you probably cheered Apple's move to allow users to alert any company they digitally ...

Safari might have been one of the first browsers to add an “Ask websites not to track me” button to its Privacy settings, but now it’s going to be one of the ...

Who are these companies and what do they want from me? A voyage into the invisible business that funds the web. This morning, if you opened your browser and went to NYTimes.com, an amazing thing ...

Firefox/Chrome/IE/Safari: previously mentioned Do Not Track Plus picked up a new name and a major update: The extension is now called DoNotTracKMe, has a streamlined ...

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