Using tools to track your website traffic is an excellent way to generate leads and make customers' online experiences more personalized. Tracking website visitors isn't just about knowing what pages ...

California resident and serial plaintiff Jerry Aviles has sued RELX Inc., the parent company of LexisNexis and Lex Machina, alleging that it deployed web tracking ...

A web analytics company, Compete Inc., has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that it violated federal law by using its web-tracking software to collect consumers’ personal data ...

The lawsuit against RELX is yet another in a growing wave of litigation that looks to apply CIPA to website tracking software. Since late last year, a number of companies, including Synchrony ...

WASHINGTON - The CIA got caught with a hand in the Internet cookie jar. The agency removed software from one of its Web sites this week after a private group discovered that the CIA was using banned ...

The CIA got caught with a hand in the Internet cookie jar. The agency removed tracking software known as a "cookie" from one of its Web sites this week after a private group discovered the banned ...

When you think of spyware, Sears probably isn't the first name that comes to mind. But the Federal Trade Commission announced today that the retailer had agreed to settle a complaint alleging it had ...

A web analytics company has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal law by using its web-tracking software that collected personal data without disclosing the extent ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Unlocking the browser extension's underpinnings could attract outside improvements and dispel 'conspiracy theories' about data about users it used to gather. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...