"Police blotter" is a weekly CNET News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: A Texas man says the timestamp of cookies on his Web browser proves he was actually online and ...

Turning off third-party cookies could also unintentionally punish small websites by shutting them out of targeted ads that make money, giving even more power to tech giants such as Apple, Google and ...

San Francisco: The data-tracking "cookies" at the heart of concerns over online privacy were meant to shield people, rather than serve as cyber snoops, their inventor told AFP. California-based ...

Sachin Kumar, Vice President, Technology, eSec Forte Technologies. Cookies are trackers that are placed on a user’s computer by a website or application. These trackers collect data that is used to ...