"Police blotter" is a weekly CNET News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: A Texas man says the timestamp of cookies on his Web browser proves he was actually online and ...

In addition to having multimedia and other rich content, Web sites are becoming a lot more interactive and have areas where people can sign in to user accounts for access to settings, discussion ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the business of personal data. It may raise hackles to think that U.S. intelligence officials might be monitoring ...

The National Security Agency's Internet site has been placing files on visitors' computers that can track their Web surfing activity despite strict federal rules banning most of them. These files, ...

Having previously revealed the upcoming demise of cookies in its platform, Google pledged this week that it won’t swap in a similar web tracker. But that doesn’t mean there are no other plans in the ...

Attention, webmasters: Insecure website cookies set via HTTP requests may allow a remote attacker to obtain private information from a victim's HTTPS session, warns DHS-CERT. The problem is this: A ...

The internet’s largest gatekeepers have had it with cookies, and they’re waging a war to wipe them off the face of the web. No company is more at the forefront of this uprising than Google, which ...

A recent addition to America Online's privacy policy clears the way for the company to use online tracking tools, including cookies and Web bugs, to compile anonymous data about its members and ...

Last week’s announcement from the Privacy Foundation raised new concerns about Web browsers and privacy. You may already be aware of Web bugging, a technique used ...