“Fingerprinting is designed to be user-hostile,” said Jackson. “It even takes the fact that you don't want to be tracked as a parameter to make your fingerprint more unique.” ...

Here's what you need to know about Google fingerprinting, a new way to get more of your information.

Browser fingerprinting is a method to track user activity and store their information, including time zones, locale, browsers, and more.

Our latest privacy experiment tested sites for an invisible form of online tracking that you can't easily avoid.

Fingerprinting happens when sites force your browser to hand over innocent-looking but largely unchanging technical information about your computer, ...

"Fingerprinting is designed to be user-hostile," said Jackson. "It even takes the fact that you don't want to be tracked as a parameter to make your fingerprint more unique." ...