Cookies. Such an innocent word has a lot of power behind it these days, and it’s not because of American obesity rates. In the world of the web, cookies (a.k.a. “browser cookies,” “HTTP cookies,” ...

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 ...

More than half of the internet’s top websites use a little known capability of Adobe’s Flash plug-in to track users and store information about them, but only four of them mention the so-called Flash ...

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 ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - You open up a web browser or a website, and before you can do anything, it wants to know if you will accept cookies. And we're not talking about ...

Watch out for those cookie crumbs. They might be costing money. Cookies aren’t just treats tasty with milk. They are little bits of text served to computers by Web sites that leave a sort of footprint ...

WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using “cookies” and location data to pinpoint targets for government ...

LONDON, Oct 31 (Reuters) - The "cookie," a simplistic identification tag that most Internet users unknowingly carry when surfing the Web, runs the risk of being outlawed under a proposed privacy ...