Are cookies spying on you? What really happens behind the ‘accept all’ button you keep clicking on websitesThey’re not sweet treats, but internet cookies track your every click, habit, and interest. Most of us hit “accept” without a second though...
20 May, 2025, 06.16 PM IST
Cookie PolicyThis cookie policy explains how and why cookies and other similar technologies may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use ...
20 Feb, 2025, 05.51 PM IST
UK regulator criticises Google targeted adverts plansThe UK's data watchdog, the ICO, criticised Google's policy shift allowing "fingerprinting" to track users for targeted ads. This method, u...
19 Dec, 2024, 11.11 PM IST
Google scraps plan to remove cookies from Chrome following concerns from advertisersGoogle will retain third-party cookies in Chrome, addressing advertiser concerns and CMA scrutiny. Anthony Chavez's Privacy Sandbox aims to...
23 Jul, 2024, 07.12 AM IST
Alphabet hit with Austrian privacy complaint over alleged browser trackingGoogle has introduced a set of tools called the Privacy Sandbox to block covert tracking techniques and limit data sharing with third parti...
14 Jun, 2024, 08.49 AM IST
When the third-party cookie crumbles: A new privacy-centric internet emergesThird-party cookies, which are used to track the online movement of users, are being phased out by Google. A tool to make a user’s internet...
25 Feb, 2024, 08.51 AM IST
French data watchdog imposes 10 million euro fine on Yahoo! over cookie policyConcerning Yahoo!'s e-mail client, the CNIL found users could not withdraw their consent for cookies without giving up their access to the ...
19 Jan, 2024, 09.10 AM IST
France fines TikTok $5.4 million for online tracking shortcomingsFrench data protection watchdog CNIL said its investigation only concerned the website tiktok.com and not the service's much more heavily u...
13 Jan, 2023, 08.49 AM IST
Microsoft fined €60 million over advertising cookies in FranceThe French regulator said that after investigations it found that "when users visited this site, cookies were deposited on their terminal w...
22 Dec, 2022, 01.35 PM IST
Instagram and Facebook are stalking you on websites. Here's how you can protect yourselfThis "code injection" enables user tracking and overrides tracking restrictions.
16 Aug, 2022, 06.25 PM IST
General Mills India unit, Pillsbury to settle dispute with Prataap SnacksBoth parties have decided to end a three-year-old dispute, where Prataap Snacks, maker of 'Yellow Diamonds,' agreed to change the font size...
08 Jul, 2022, 12.29 PM IST
Browser cookies trigger anger, fear among users, finds studyBrowser cookies are not new. They were developed in 1994 by a Netscape programmer.
06 Jul, 2022, 07.37 PM IST
Google, Amazon fined $163 million by French privacy watchdogThe CNIL noted that both companies made changes to their websites in September, yet said efforts were not sufficient to be in line with Fre...
11 Dec, 2020, 04.21 AM IST
French watchdog fines Google 100 million euros for breaching cookies rulesThe regulator found the French websites of Google and Amazon didn't seek the prior consent of visitors before advertising cookies were save...
10 Dec, 2020, 01.54 PM IST
Privacy activists in EU file complaints over iPhone trackingNOYB says the iOS operating system creates unique codes for each iPhone that allow Apple and other third parties to “identify users across ...
16 Nov, 2020, 04.20 PM IST
Google faces music over tracking Apple's Safari Web browserUsing its DoubleClick ad network, Google has been dodging a privacy setting in Safari, the primary Web browser on the iPhone and iPad.
19 Feb, 2012, 02.56 PM IST
- EU's web privacy law on cookies may trigger legal confusion
EU data privacy rules forcing companies such as Google Inc. and Yahoo! to seek consent before targeting users with online advertising may s...
25 May, 2011, 01.21 AM IST