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Cookie-blocking browser plugin Ghostery feeds data to the ad industry
- The popular browser add-on called Ghostery blocks tracking code on websites, improving page load speeds and narrowing a user’s footprint on the web. It’s often touted as an essential part of the online privacy toolkit, and made the list in…
Firefox 22 will block third-party cookies by default
- Mozilla will soon be taking a page from Apple’s book and implementing a feature in Firefox 22 that will allow the browser to block advertising cookies from third-parties by default. If you aren’t already aware, Cupertino’s Safari browser has shipped…
Yahoo! is latest company to ignore IE10's Do-Not-Track setting
- Microsoft's decision to enable Do Not Track in IE10 by default is still managing to elicit industry criticism. Yahoo is the latest company to ignore IE10's on-by-default DNT policy, joining Apache in not recognizing the browser's DNT setting. Yahoo reasons that…
Apple resumes ad tracking efforts in iOS 6, here's how to turn it off
- With the introduction of iOS 6, Apple also rolled out a new method of tracking users for advertisers and developers: IFA, IDFA or "ID for advertisers". Although the technology cannot be used to personally identify a user, it does however…
Google faces $22 million fine over Safari cookie debacle
- Google is close to reaching a settlement deal with the FTC over concerns raised back in February that the search giant was actively circumventing the privacy settings of desktop and iOS Safari users. Back then an investigation by the Wall…
Microsoft talks IE10, "Do Not Track" will be enabled by default
- Yesterday, Microsoft posted an interesting look at the current state of Internet Explorer 10 on its MSDN blog. In the article, readers will discover that Microsoft is touting a faster and more fluid experience, natural touch and gesture control, metro-influenced…
Collusion for Chrome lets users visualize website trackers, third-parties
- Disconnect has released Collusion for Chrome, an open source extension which aims to graphically illustrate where your data is going while you cruise the web. Collusion was actually made available to Firefox about a month ago, but Disconnect has managed to…
FTC praises 'Do Not Track' initiatives, refreshes privacy framework
- In a new report published by the FTC (pdf), the commission attempts to lay a new framework to protect the privacy of citizens and refreshes its own views on how to accomplish those goals. Some of the ideas outlined include Do…
Microsoft claims Google foils IE's privacy policies as well
- Microsoft accused Google of bypassing privacy protections used in Internet Explorer yesterday, following on from a revelation last week that the Internet search giant was bypassing privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser to track users.
Google accused of bypassing Safari privacy settings to track users
- Google has been actively circumventing the privacy settings of desktop and iOS Safari users, according to an investigation by the Wall Street Journal. The paper claims that even though Safari’s default setting blocks cookies from third parties, which are often…
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