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 ...

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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