Google has U-turned on its plans to roll-out a standalone prompt for third-party cookies and trackers in Chrome, leaving the data privacy of millions of users at risk. In a blog post, Google said: "We ...

After years of seeing other browsers improve privacy features, Google is now offering a native Chrome feature to block cookies from being accessed by third-party clients. With this feature, it will ...

The trackers found on health exchanges are extremely common and are used by the world’s most popular websites, including ones people use to prepare for college, do their taxes, get a mortgage, or ...

In April, The Markup and CalMatters found that Covered California, the state of California’s healthcare exchange, was sending its users’ personal health information to LinkedIn. The news triggered a ...

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