Research released Monday shows that the use of surveillance technology popularly known as Web bugs is on the rise, putting online companies in a precarious position with the consumers they're snooping ...

A handful of companies are arming Web surfers with tools for finding and repelling so-called Web bugs--invisible pieces of code that can be used for everything from secretly tracking people's Web ...

In Vita v. New England Baptist Hosp., __ Mass __, __ N.E.3d __, 2024 WL 4558621 (Mass. Oct. 24, 2024), the court held that the Massachusetts wiretap statute does not criminalize interception of web ...

As a follow-up to an article I wrote earlier this year on the perils of HTML e-mail, today I’m looking at how to defeat e-mail tracking services that use Web bugs. Web bugs are very small (often only ...

Following up on a successful bug bounty program that pays hackers for finding security flaws in its Chrome browser, Google now says that it will pay cash for security bugs reported on its websites.

WASHINGTON – The Congressional Privacy Caucus, a bipartisan group of federal legislators, plans to examine the use of “Web bugs” that can track the movements of ...

One of her friends had signed her up for an event in London, where hackers aim to find the vulnerabilities in a particular piece of software. Without any experience of cybersecurity, beyond being a ...

In Brian K. Vaughan’s digital comic series The Private Eye, the world of 2076 has dismantled the Internet and obsesses over personal privacy after “the cloud burst” and exposed everyone’s online ...

WASHINGTON – The Congressional Privacy Caucus, a bipartisan group of federal legislators, plans to examine the use of “Web bugs” that can track the movements of ...