https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2026/03/24/google-cookies-help-cops-identify-anonymous-users/
Over the last two decades, tracking “cookies” have been core to the sprawl of surveillance capitalism. Websites lodge little nuggets of text—the cookies—on a user’s computer and they act as a kind of badge signalling what sites they’ve visited or what apps they’ve used. ...
That makes them a useful tool for law enforcement, according to two search warrants reviewed by Forbes.
Over the last two decades, tracking “cookies” have been core to the sprawl of surveillance capitalism. Websites lodge little nuggets of text—the cookies—on a user’s computer and they act as a kind of badge signalling what sites they’ve visited or what apps they’ve used. ...
That makes them a useful tool for law enforcement, according to two search warrants reviewed by Forbes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2026/03/24/google-cookies-help-cops-identify-anonymous-users/
Over the last two decades, tracking “cookies” have been core to the sprawl of surveillance capitalism. Websites lodge little nuggets of text—the cookies—on a user’s computer and they act as a kind of badge signalling what sites they’ve visited or what apps they’ve used. ...
That makes them a useful tool for law enforcement, according to two search warrants reviewed by Forbes.