Adobe’s Flash program is being used on heavily trafficked Web sites to collect information on how people navigate those sites even if people believe they’ve restricted the data collection, according ...

Firefox add-on Better Privacy (free) can get rid of privacy-busting Flash cookies, also known as local shared objects or LSOs, which are used by many sites to ...

The Federal Trade Commission has announced a settlement agreement with ScanScout, Inc., an online advertising network alleged to have made misleading statements in its privacy policy which omitted to ...

Online ad network Specific Media has been hit with a lawsuit for allegedly violating Web users' privacy by using Flash cookies for tracking purposes. In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in the ...

One of the features app makers and online advertisers rely on is reliable measurement of their audiences and customers. But according to Scout Analytics, a Seattle-area firm that provides behavioral ...

In the latest of a string of lawsuits about online tracking, a paying AOL subscriber has sued the Web company for allegedly using Flash cookies to thwart her privacy settings. Mississippi resident ...

A: This involve a somewhat obscure part of Adobe's widely used Flash Player software. Flash cookies, what Adobe calls "Local Shared Objects," were in the news after the release of a critical study ...

Users can still be tracked even if they delete their HTTP cookies since Adobe's Flash plug-in stores data Adobe’s Flash program is being used on heavily trafficked Web sites to collect information on ...