If you are worried about your privacy online and being tracked by big corporations you might be interested in more about Browser Fingerprinting. A tracking method that collects detailed information ...

The specific combination of mundane information such as your plugins and system fonts can be used to create a “fingerprint” for your browser that could potentially uniquely identify you. To showcase ...

Clearing your cookies is not enough to protect your privacy online. New research led by Texas A&M University found that websites are covertly using browser fingerprinting — a method to uniquely ...

You've probably heard the phrase "if you're not paying for it, you're the product." With free web services, that's especially true. Advertisers and data brokers ...

One of the perks of using Chrome is a wide assortment of browser extensions at your disposal. Including themes and apps, there are over 200,000 of them in the Chrome Web Store. There's strength in ...

Why it matters: Fingerprinting algorithms can provide a website with unique IDs on its visitors. It's a powerful tracking technology that requires equally powerful countermeasures, but sometimes ...

In fraud and bot detection, people usually think of fingerprinting as the classic browser or device fingerprint. This comes ...

Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox give Web sites enough information to get a unique picture of their visitors about 94 percent of the time, according to ...

Research shows the type of browser, plug-ins, and font data enable Web sites to create a unique portrait of most visitors Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox ...

Open-source browser fingerprinting startup FingerprintJS Inc. said today it has raised $32 million in new funding to accelerate the development of additional developer tools, including a JavaScript ...