For more than a decade, the ad tech industry has tried to replace the term “fingerprinting” with euphemisms, like probabilistic modeling. But too bad for ad tech, because the term stuck. All of the ...

Apple has warned iPhone users to stop using Google Chrome. Microsoft has done the same. Now a new report exposes the extent ...

In late December, right before the holidays, Google announced a policy change that elicited both cheers and jeers. Starting on February 16, Google said it will no longer prohibit fingerprinting for ...

The Internal Revenue Service is planning to mandate a new electronic fingerprinting process for e-file applications for tax practitioners starting Sept. 25. Processing Content In an email Wednesday to ...

Apple will soon start cracking down on Apps that collect data on users' devices in order to track them (aka "fingerprinting"), according to an article on its developer site spotted by 9to5Mac.

We have more tools to secure our identity online than ever before. You can ban cookies — the little pieces of information websites deposit in our browsers to ...

In the near future, your finger may no longer need to press up against an inkpad in order to provide your identity. A recent report from Wired takes a look at "contactless fingerprinting" technology, ...

The U.S. Postal Service is expanding the digital fingerprinting service it offers the public to hundreds of new post offices this year. USPS struck a deal with French security company IDEMIA to bring ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Just when you thought we had hit rock bottom on all the ways the internet could snoop on us — no. We’ve sunk even lower. There’s a tactic spreading across ...