Microsoft has posted up a statement on its IE blog that goes into detail about the mouse tracking exploit and also paints a bigger picture about Spider.io's motive. More...

Google faces an investigation from the Federal Trade Commission over an exploit they manipulated with Safari's cookies, allowing them to track users who did not give permission to be tracked. More...

Wakoopa, self-described as the "Last.fm of software", is to shut down at the end of the month,. Users will be able to download their data before it is gone forever. More...

The UK government could propose a new law beginning in May that if passed would allow intelligence groups a way to monitor emails, website visits, texts and calls. More...

The ability to remotely track a lost of stolen smartphone is great - but it's not 100% accurate, as one man discovered when police broke into his house, following 'Find My iPhone' location data. More...

Google is in trouble with Congress and the FTC again, this time over its supposed exploitation of a flaw in Apple's Safari browser allowing it to track users without their consent. More...

Nowadays it's hard to keep your online life private, so we've compiled an extensive two part guide that helps you regain your online privacy. Part two looks at the less drastic measures you can take More...

Nowadays it's hard to keep your online life private, so we've compiled an extensive two part guide that helps you regain your online privacy. Part one looks at drastic measures you can take More...

Australian writer and hacker Nik Cubrilovic has uncovered a flaw where Facebook continues to track you via cookies even after you have logged out from the service More...

Some U.S. Senators have raised concerns about OnStar saying that it will continue to collect data from cars even if the customer has cancelled their OnStar service. More...

Microsoft has posted up a job posting today that is looking for help in being able to track all of its Windows Phone devices anywhere in the World, even without GPS. More...

Back in April, it was discovered that Apple has been tracking and recording the positions of iPhones and iPads here in the US. While there was a huge negative response to this revelation, there have... More...

Apple may have addressed the concerns of its customers by offering to completely purge the device's location cache if you choose to disable Location Services in iOS 4.3.3, but the company and its fellow competitor,... More...

Last week we reported that GPS maker TomTom was selling customer data to the police in the Netherlands who were then taking that data and using it to setup speed traps in order to increase... More...

Verizon has announced that it plans to put a notice on all of its phones, saying that they are capable of "determining its (and your) physical, geographical location". This revelation comes several days after it... More...

It seems that living off the grid is becoming more and more difficult with every electronic device apparently monitoring your location and sending information back to the parent company. Today’s privacy breach is courtesy of... More...

It was recently discovered that Apple's iOS logged your location and that it was possible to take the stored data and turn it into a graphic that showed your previous location. It was also noted... More...

Living “off the grid” may become a bit more difficult in the future if Hagen Klauk’s research takes hold. Discovery News is reporting that the researcher has managed to place organic transistors on your cold,... More...

Amidst bureaucratic wrangling and legal arguments in the upper echelons of the world’s legislative bodies, Microsoft has decided to take matters into its own hands when it comes to ‘do not track’ web browser functionality.... More...

In a case heard by a federal appeals court in Philadelphia on Friday, the U.S. government argued for the right to access cell phone records of suspected criminals without a warrant according to Reuters. Lower... More...

Charter Communications is sending letters to its customers informing them of an "enhanced online experience" that involves Charter monitoring its users' searches and the websites they visit, and inserting targeted third-party ads based on their... More...

If you are an iPhone owner and took the time to read through the contract you signed with AT&T, you may have realized two interesting facts. For starters, the iPhone contract is much longer... More...

The U-blox 5 chip, which is designed for wireless devices, combines the coverage of two satellite-based navigation services (America's GPS and Europe's Galileo) to offer a location tracking time of less than one second. The... More...

A patent for Tracking usage behavior in computer systems was granted to Microsoft Tuesday after the software giant explained how it can use invisible images and 'small sized cookies' to surreptitiously track visitors on its... More...

Overview This update addresses the E-mail tracking feature of the Microsoft Business Solutions CRM v1.0 product. This feature provides the ability to track e-mail correspondence by including a unique tracking number that appears on... More...

Wal-Mart plans to spend $3 billion over the next several years on a new inventory tracking technology that uses radio frequency signals to keep tabs on merchandise, sources familiar with the project said. The system... More...

Wouldn't it be good if parents could track who their children are emailing. That's the promise behind Kid-e-mail which launches as a free service this November. It says it can offer parents... More...

Web advertising and marketing company DoubleClick Inc. at the end of last year dropped its Intelligent Targeting service, which tracked Web browsing habits with the intention of funneling targeted advertising reflecting a Web viewer's personal... More...