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The proposed standard enables two methods of automated preference delivery—one that communicates directly with the web server hosting a site being visited, and another that communicates with the ...

Google engineers plan to improve user privacy and security by putting a short lifespan on cookies delivered via HTTP connections. Google hopes that the move will force website developers and ...

Flash cookies placed by many of the most popular Web sites are being used to track site visitors, even going so far as to re-create http tracking cookies after they’re deleted by privacy-conscious ...

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 ...

An HTTP cookie is a packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses that server. Cookies have been of concern for Internet ...