Beginning in Chrome 85, Chrome will check if there’s a referrer security header. If none is present, Chrome will automatically default to a strict header. Publishers who need the full URL to be passed ...

Nearly a dozen years after Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee warned that referrer headers could leak information about Web users, such headers have become the hottest privacy issue to hit the courts.

It’s always a pleasure to receive mail (or e-mail) from former students. Jürgen Pabel graduated from the MSIA program in June 2004. He is an experienced network engineer and security consultant for ...

Mozilla announced the availability of a meta referrer header in Firefox 36 beta. The meta referrer provides users with policy options limiting the personal data sent in web requests. The HTTP Referer ...

Now, people online are looking for information about a Google “Referrer Header” settlement. A VERIFY reader also asked if the Google class action settlement is real. Online search giant Google has ...

In a blow to Google, a federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the company of "leaking" personal information about Web users via referrer headers. The decision, issued this week by U.S ...

Mozilla has announced that it will introduce a more privacy-focused default Referrer Policy to protect Firefox users' privacy, starting with the web browser's next version. The new user privacy ...