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What do Girl Scouts learn from selling cookies?
Friday, March 9, 2012
It's Girl Scout cookie season and you know what that means: Swaths of girls and parents hawking Thin Mints and Do-Si-Dos in supermarket parking lots and workplaces across the country. But what's the real lesson here?
An update on The Great Google Cookie Scare of 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
What you need to know about how Google may be following you around the web.
It wasn’t just Safari. Google bypasses IE security too
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
I'm sure the fact that these companies are rivals have nothing to do with these complaints.
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What advertisers are learning about you online
Monday, January 23, 2012
A new book explores the digital trail you leave behind online and what advertising companies are able to determine from it. Also, tablets and readers spike up dramatically.
Facebook caves
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
A couple days ago, we reported on how, under Facebook's new arrangement, the company will track your activities online EVEN IF you've logged out....
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Facebook is still watching you even when you're logged out
Monday, September 26, 2011
Along with Facebook's big redesign has come some new scrutiny on exactly how the company is following you around the internet. According to some...
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SUPER COOKIES
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Super cookies? Super cookies! We all know what internet cookies are by now, right? Little packets of data that a website stores on your computer...
Stop following me.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Wired is reporting that a new lawsuit filed in California alleges that tracking software from web analytics firm KISSmetrics violates privacy laws....
Security flaws at LinkedIn
Monday, May 23, 2011
Security flaws will eventually get around to everyone: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Sizzler, Play-Doh, your grandma, Jupiter. This time up it's...
Websites ditch cookies
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
The Wall Street Journal reports on the move of major websites to get rid of technologies that track users, like cookies. MSNBC, The Huffington Post...
Buzzworthy
Recent comments on our stories..
Times-Picayune to cut back jobs and production schedule
As someone born and breaded in New Orleans I'm sorry to see this news from my hometown paper, but as someone who's found reading it an...
BostonPeng | May 24, 2012
High-frequency trading: Bad for markets... and the soul?
Hi,
First I'd like to thank everyone for listening to what I had to say, it's really an honor to have been on marketplace. Second...
Nick Hanauer on the TED talk, income inequality controversy
If the idea of "trickle-down economics" hasn't worked---when governments have actually *tried* it, rather than a form they...
kingjon | May 18, 2012 Time to bring back Glass-Steagall?
I can finally agree with Robert Reich100%. To our detriment, banks have forgotten that there is a difference between manipulating money, and...
pauliswood | May 16, 2012
