Google announces "IP Protection," an opt-in, phased feature to mask users' IP addresses. Phase 0 will focus on Google-owned domains and be available initially for U.S.-based IPs. The feature aims to ...

Tracking Internet users through their IP addresses has always been a controversial privacy issue for companies. Google has also faced numerous lawsuits over tracking Android users and using GeoIP to ...

Google is looking to phase out third-party cookies from Google Chrome next year. The company will continue to track users through a different method, which has seen its fair share of criticism so far.

It’s not exactly a VPN, and it will only work with Google-owned domains to start, but it could offer users more ways to hide their activity online. Reading time 2 minutes If you’re on the internet ...

Google is readying a privacy initiative aimed at hindering “device fingerprinting” -- a controversial tracking technology that recognizes users based on their computers' characteristics. The planned ...

Google has not always been at the forefront of protecting user privacy, but it tries in its own way. A change is coming to Google's omnipresent Chrome browser that could help keep your identity ...

Google is developing a two-hop proxy to enhance privacy for Chrome users, which has three big implications for advertisers: Why we care. The two-hop proxy is only implemented on Chrome, meaning Google ...