A: Almost two months after saying it would let customers opt out of this advertising scheme, the nation's largest wireless carrier updated its privacy settings a few days ago to make that possible.

Among the many new features in Firefox 4 is support for the Do Not Track (DNT) HTTP header. If you turn on the DNT header in Firefox 4's preferences pane, the browser will broadcast a custom header in ...

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chatbot chats, including sensitive data, were exposed on Google after xAI’s share feature leaked them. AI is rapidly moving beyond creating static videos to generating ...

A company that correlates data about users across different websites to share with marketers is using unique IDs inserted by Verizon into mobile Web traffic to recreate tracking cookies that have been ...

And then there was Chrome. Apple made it clear this week that the next version of its Safari browser -- which will ship with the upcoming version of Mac OS -- will include the ability for users to ...

Last week, the White House announced a new Internet privacy agreement with the companies serving nearly 90 percent of "online behavioral advertisements," theoretically forcing the likes of Google, ...

Yahoo websites worldwide will comply with visitors’ “do not track” preferences starting later this year, Yahoo announced Wednesday. Most major browsers are now able to send a message to sites visited, ...

Google announced today the availability of a browser add-on for Chrome that will make it easier for users to opt out of the behavioral tracking that Internet advertising companies use to improve ad ...

Tenacious "supercookies" allowed mobile broadband providers to follow their customers' activity—both in the U.S. and abroad—for over a decade, until the practice was discovered and publicized late ...