The European Parliament's decision on Wednesday not to clamp down on the use of Web cookies is a wake-up call for the online industry, according to insiders. Elements within the EU political scene ...

Cookies may be one of the most maligned parts of the internet, but they weren’t always so notorious. Back in 1994, a young man named Lou Montulli developed the cookie as a way for website operators to ...

In addition to having multimedia and other rich content, Web sites are becoming a lot more interactive and have areas where people can sign in to user accounts for access to settings, discussion ...

More than half of the internet’s top websites use a little known capability of Adobe’s Flash plug-in to track users and store information about them, but only four of them mention the so-called Flash ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - You open up a web browser or a website, and before you can do anything, it wants to know if you will accept cookies. And we're not talking about ...

SHREVEPORT, La.- You’ve probably seen the pop-up a thousand times: “This site uses cookies — accept or decline?” Maybe you click “Accept All” without thinking, assuming the website won’t work if you ...

CHICAGO, April 20 (UPI) -- Would anyone willingly download a file from the Internet that can track his or her movements online and provide that private information to advertisers? Willing or not, ...

Watch out for those cookie crumbs. They might be costing money. Cookies aren’t just treats tasty with milk. They are little bits of text served to computers by Web sites that leave a sort of footprint ...

Cookies are usually delectable delights, but web cookies can sometimes be less than delightful. These little files hide in your computer so that your browser and websites can track your browsing ...