The new online pinboard is apparently making money by adding tracking code to certain user-submitted pins and getting a cut when someone buys something though the pin. Should this be disclosed? Lance ...

A Nov. 2 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) has a video captioned “Gun and Ammo buyers beware: Credit card companies and big banks are tracking your purchases. Start using cash to stay off ...

AT&T Mobility, the nation's second-largest cellular provider, said Friday it's no longer attaching hidden Internet tracking codes to data transmitted from its users' smartphones. The practice made it ...

A set of 57 Chrome extensions with 6,000,000 users have been discovered with very risky capabilities, such as monitoring browsing behavior, accessing cookies for domains, and potentially executing ...

A new scam involving fake tracking codes and delivery mix ups is hitting online shoppers this holiday, according to an alert from the Better Business Bureau. "Con artists are exploiting a PayPal ...

Numerous brands of color laser printers leave coded metadata in barely perceptible yellow dots that can be used to trace a printed document to its source, a feature originally intended as a deterrent ...