Companies that embed tracking pixels on their websites face a fast-growing wave of consumer privacy lawsuits, with filings ...

Web Tracking is not the same as website tracking. The latter refers to analyzing things about any website. That’s done using different tools available to webmasters. Web Tracking is about tracking you ...

The web is overrun with cookies, and not the tasty kind. These small pieces of code follow you around the web and help firms build up profiles about your interests. Stalked from website-to-website by ...

A few months on from a tracking controversy hitting privacy-centric search veteran, DuckDuckGo, the company has announced it’s been able to amend terms with Microsoft, its search syndication partner, ...

Amy Jessel made the conscious decision not to buy Facebook or Google ads to promote her nonprofit company ShapingYouth. "I went to great lengths not to monetize via Google AdSense or even sponsorship ...

Web tracking lawsuits stem from companies collecting their website visitors' data. These cases do not involve "hacking" or other forms of data breach or data incident, writes contributors John Cleary, ...

This article in our Royal Holloway information security series introduces the concept of web tracking, provides an overview of how organisations track users and discusses a few of the difficulties ...