If you want to prevent companies from tracking what you do online, you may be tempted to turn on your browser's "Do Not Track" option. However, while enabling it doesn't exactly do any harm, it ...

Dan Goodin has been covering Silicon Valley’s internet security issues for two decades and if you ask him what he thinks about the Walnut Creek Chamber of Commerce’s plans to track the locations of ...

Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has long faced criticism for tracking users' online behaviour and selling that data to advertisers. A typical example is when you search for a ...

If South Korea's $15 million fine to Meta is not enough to convince you to leave Facebook or Instagram, this just might. Searches for deleting these platforms skyrocketed after Meta announced policy ...