For decades, “cookies” have been tracking you around the web. They’re the snippets of code that uniquely identify your browser and allow those shoe ads to follow you from site to site after you visit ...

Ironically, a trusty online privacy feature can now be reworked into a “super cookie” that tracks you like a bloodhound. Any respectable Web browser has a “privacy mode,” a clean slate without the ...

Flash cookies placed by many of the most popular Web sites are being used to track site visitors, even going so far as to re-create http tracking cookies after they’re deleted by privacy-conscious ...

The Washington Post/Getty Images This batch didn't come out so well. A security flaw means that users of almost every modern web browser can be surreptitiously tracked online without their knowledge, ...

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, ...

After nearly 20 years, the era of web-based ‘cookies’ appears headed for an end, as companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft explore new ways to track Internet users’ habits, from desktop PCs to ...

(CNN) — For decades, “cookies’ have been tracking you around the web. They’re the snippets of code that uniquely identify your browser and allow those shoe ads to follow you from site to site after ...