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Progress Snapshot 5.10 from The Progress & Freedom Foundation A recent telephone poll conducted by professors at Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania concluded, “Contrary to what many marketers claim, most adult Americans (66%) do not want marketers to tailor advertisements to their interest.” The study’s authors claim that their poll is the “the first nationally [...]

As noted in the first installment of our “Privacy Solution Series,” we are outlining various user-empowerment or user “self-help” tools that allow Internet users to better protect their privacy online-and especially to defeat tracking for online behavioral advertising purposes. These tools and methods form an important part of a layered approach that we believe offers [...]

In this installment of our Privacy Solutions Series, we’ll be taking a look at the privacy-related features in the most popular browser in use today, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Specifically, we’ll be examining the most recent version of the browser, IE 8, Release Candidate 1.