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

Browser fingerprinting is a method to track user activity and store their information, including time zones, locale, browsers, and more, to identify them, among others uniquely. This technique is a ...

I learned about fingerprinting, and it blew my mind ...

Researchers have significantly improved the ability to generate a unique fingerprint for your computer by reading how the operating system and hardware respond to certain browser actions. Cookies used ...

The Tor Project has released Tor Browser 8.5.1 and it is now available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. This release is the first bug fix since 8.5 was released and also includes a temporary fix ...

Not all firms that track consumers' browsing behavior by using advanced browser fingerprinting techniques fail to honor "Do Not Track" (DNT) flags or opt-out preferences. So said James Brentano, VP of ...

You’re constantly leaving your fingerprint all over the internet. You leave it with the personal information you share willingly, the personal information you share unknowingly, and with the mountain ...

The Brave browser is working on a feature that will randomize its "fingerprint" every time a user visits a website in an attempt to preserve the user's privacy. Brave's decision comes as online ...

Researchers have recently developed the first reliable technique for websites to track visitors even when they use two or more different browsers. This shatters a key defense against sites that ...

While Cookies and other means have been used to track online users for quite a time now. A new tracking mechanism was developed. This mechanism uses the HTML 5 Canvas Element to track visitors, and it ...

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 ...