What They Know

The Wall Street Journal’s What They Know Tech section looks at online privacy issues, and how an increasing number of companies are working harder to track your activity on the internet.

Some of the articles:

Introduction – Explore the Data

How Advertisers Use Internet Cookies to Track You

What They Know — Kids

Using Credit Cards to Target Web Ads

How to Outsmart Tracking, including:

• Update your browser to the latest version (I like Chrome and Safari on the Mac)
• Delete browser cookies
• Enable Private Browsing
• Install Ghostery (which I have covered before here)

 

Posted: January 24th, 2012
Filed under: Mobile, Security & Privacy, Social Networking Tags: browsers, cookies, data, ghostery | No Comments »

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