More tech companies than ever are using controversial "canvas fingerprinting" technology to track Web users. That's according to Princeton University's Steven Englehardt, who recently ran new tests ...

Programmers tend to have their own distinct styles, but it's not really feasible to pore over many lines of code looking for telltale cues about a program's author. Now, that might not be necessary.

You may think you're thwarting advertisers and other nosy web citizens by blocking cookies and invoking Do Not Track whenever possible, but that apparently isn't good enough. Researchers have just ...

A method for tracking users across the Internet called “canvas fingerprinting” is simple to stop, but average Internet users may not know how to do it. A research paper concluded that code used for ...