Washington Post Technology Columnist Geoffrey Fowler and Security Researcher Sam Jadali discovered six browser extensions gathered data from 4 million Chrome and Firefox users. The extensions collected the information without authorization from either browser. Jadali found the extensions, which incl...

CNET reports that Mozilla Firefox now blocks website cookies that let advertisers and publishers track users around the web. The feature, called Enhanced Tracking Protection, will block third-party cookies by default in newly installed versions of Firefox and will be available to already installed v...

The Wall Street Journal reports Google is set to roll out a tool that will limit cookies tracking. The tool will appear as a dashboard-like function in Google Chrome browsers and provide internet users with more information about what cookies are tracking them before offering options to end some tra...

Privacy-focused internet browser Brave is rolling out new ads to boost user experiences, CNET reports. After committing to default ad blocking upon its creation, Brave is now going a step further by replacing ads usually seen on a website with untrackable ads that the browser decides to display with...