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 ...

This past June, a John Doe plaintiff who was a patient at Baltimore-based Medstar Health System filed a class-action complaint against Meta Platforms in the U.S. District Court for the Northern ...

Web tracking lawsuits stem from companies collecting their website visitors' data. These cases do not involve "hacking" or other forms of data breach or data incident, writes contributors John Cleary, ...

Amid the booming age of video rentals that marked the 1980s, former President Ronald Reagan sought to protect the privacy of customers' video rental history and ...

Late last week, it emerged that Google intends to ignore a call by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) — the international body that works to guide the development of web standards — to rethink the ...

A blacklight can reveal all sorts of secrets that are invisible to the naked eye. So what if you had a virtual blacklight for the web—a way to shine an illuminating glow on the sites you visit and ...

Since AI works by collecting and learning from data, these tools might be gathering more of personal information than users ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Every organization’s online presence is growing and accelerating. This includes retail, of ...

The search giant will not end Chrome web cookies tracking after all. Delays, more delays, more delays and ... abandonment. That summarizes Google's third-party cookie deprecation game plan the last ...

In the privacy of her home, a woman searches for the nearest abortion clinic. She read a news article about Google deleting abortion search data, so she uses Google to find a clinic just over the ...