The timing of the announcement — just before Christmas — and Google’s careful avoidance of the term “fingerprinting” in its documentation has raised eyebrows. What they’re saying. The UK’s Information ...

Privacy campaigners have called Google's new rules on tracking people online "a blatant disregard for user privacy." Changes which come in on Sunday permit so-called "fingerprinting", which allows ...

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is to investigate claims that internet giant Google has violated the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It follows a series of complaints ...

In the past month, two major online advertising platforms -- Google AdWords and Facebook ... in compliance are punished along with nebulous ICO schemes," he told Mashable via e-mail.

Google said in a statement: "We look forward to further discussions with the ICO about this policy change. "We know that data signals like IP addresses are already commonly used by others in the ...