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A proposed preliminary settlement was filed on Monday night with the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, and requires a judges approval. The accord also requires Facebook to delete data it collected improperly.

Back in 2008, Verizon proclaimed that we didn't need additional consumer privacy protections (or opt in requirements, or net...

A vulnerability in Apple’s implementation of the IndexedDB API in Safari 15 allows websites to track users’ activity on other sites and even to reveal their identity

Android users who opt out of tracking can still be tracked by their phones, according to a recent study.

Facebook is at the center of two different privacy issues that have the same thing in common: Facebook appears to want unchecked access to your information. Facebook wants to collect more user data from WhatsApp users, and it’s practically forcing them to accept a controversial privacy policy change that has received plenty of criticism so far this year. Facebook also wants continued access to user data from iPhone and iPad, where Apple...

Google puts lid on cookie jar and ends an internet era Premium Timothy L. OBrien , Bloomberg Privacy concerns and technological innovation are changing how users are tracked online, but targeted ads aren’t going anywhere Share Via The cookie is dead. Long live the cookie. Google, the internet search giant, said this week that it’s done tracking us as we skate around the web. It promises that after fully eliminating its use of third-party cookies over the next year, it won’t adopt replace...

Updated Mar 04, 2021 | 13:31 IST While third-party cookies would track individual user behaviour, the FLoC methodology is premised on clustering groups of users together based on particular behavioural variables. Representational image.&nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspiStock Images Key Highlights The new approach Google is taking towards user-targeting and ad-serving is likely to have huge implications for the digital advertising industry The technology, presumably, avoids ...

International Business News: Alphabet Inc's Google on Wednesday pledged to steer clear of tracking individual online activity when it begins implementing a new system for targetin