Research released Monday shows that the use of surveillance technology popularly known as Web bugs is on the rise, putting online companies in a precarious position with the consumers they're snooping ...

A handful of companies are arming Web surfers with tools for finding and repelling so-called Web bugs--invisible pieces of code that can be used for everything from secretly tracking people's Web ...

In Vita v. New England Baptist Hosp., __ Mass __, __ N.E.3d __, 2024 WL 4558621 (Mass. Oct. 24, 2024), the court held that the Massachusetts wiretap statute does not criminalize interception of web ...

You've got bugs. At least, I bet you've picked up a few "Web bugs" if you've gone anywhere online. Even if you're boycotting the World Wide Web and only reading e-mail, odds are you've been bugged.

WASHINGTON – The Congressional Privacy Caucus, a bipartisan group of federal legislators, plans to examine the use of “Web bugs” that can track the movements of ...

Following up on a successful bug bounty program that pays hackers for finding security flaws in its Chrome browser, Google now says that it will pay cash for security bugs reported on its websites.

WASHINGTON – The Congressional Privacy Caucus, a bipartisan group of federal legislators, plans to examine the use of “Web bugs” that can track the movements of ...