On April 14, 2026, the CNIL published its long-awaited recommendation on tracking pixels in emails (Decision No. 2026-042). Tracking pixels are invisible images hosted on remote servers whose display ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The holiday season is the time of giving, but unfortunately, some believe it is the time of stealing. The U.S. Postal Inspection ...

DuckDuckGo’s tracker-removing email service, which has been available in private beta for a year, is now open to anyone who uses a DuckDuckGo mobile app, browser extension, or Mac browser. It has also ...

50 major US retailers sent 42B marketing emails in 28 days. 80% used tracking pixels to monitor clicks, devices, and location. Proton Mail calls the tactics "an engineered assault on privacy." A new ...

Your inbox might look clean once spam is filtered out, but that doesn't mean it is private. Marketing emails and newsletters include tracking pixels that call back to the sender when their images load ...

The use of email-tracking technology is drawing heightened regulatory scrutiny and has become a growing target of litigation. For many organizations, these technologies, which could be in the form of ...

We're conditioned to think our email address is harmless. Most of us think it's just an ID, a way to get receipts and shipping updates, but that's not it. Your email is the skeleton key to your online ...

But less well known is that you can be tracked simply by opening an email. Merely clicking or tapping to open a message can transmit to the sender not only that you opened it, but also where you were ...