We have more tools to secure our identity online than ever before. You can ban cookies — the little pieces of information websites deposit in our browsers to ...

For more than a decade, the ad tech industry has tried to replace the term “fingerprinting” with euphemisms, like probabilistic modeling. But too bad for ad tech, because the term stuck. All of the ...

By adding enough entropy the identifier becomes so unique that it’s possible to identify browsers during account creation, during signups, and password resets.

In the near future, your finger may no longer need to press up against an inkpad in order to provide your identity. A recent report from Wired takes a look at "contactless fingerprinting" technology, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Just when you thought we had hit rock bottom on all the ways the internet could snoop on us — no. We’ve sunk even lower. There’s a tactic spreading across ...

NEW HANOVER COUNTY (WWAY) — An education advocate is working with New Hanover County Schools to pass staff-wide finger printing. Gail Major, a former New Hanover County Schools substitute teacher is ...