Hospitals and healthcare organizations have come under fire for their use of third-party web tracking technologies and analytics software like Facebook parent company Meta’s Pixel tracker. These tech ...

Tracking users online has long been a core part of how websites deliver targeted ads and personalized content. Traditional ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Republished on February 8th with new analysis into Google’s tracking ...

Summary: For the past decade, healthcare teams have used web trackers that enable digital analytics and advertising without regard for HIPAA compliance. That all changed in late 2022 with the new web ...

This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. 2023 saw a rise in class action litigation related to internet tracking technology employed by ...

Introduced for Private Browsing sessions in Safari 17.0, Advanced Fingerprinting Protection was also optionally available for regular non-private sessions. With iOS 26, it will be enabled by default.

Clearing your cookies is not enough to protect your privacy online. New research led by Texas A&M University has found that websites are covertly using browser fingerprinting—a method to uniquely ...

A state court granted defendant Colquitt Regional Medical Center a motion to dismiss a web-tracking class action that accused the hospital of unlawfully collecting patients' HIPAA-protected medical ...

Mozilla’s Firefox web browser was the first to implement a Do Not Track option, and now appears to be the first browser to remove it. This option would send a website a request that a user didn’t wish ...