Cookies Privacy Internet
Cookies are data files that are sometimes sent by web sites/servers to a visitor's web browser. Cookies can contain any kind of information, even personal or sensitive data, which is why privacy groups are up-in-arms over them.
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Taking the Byte Out of Cookies: Privacy, Consent, and the Web - Paper on computer ethics presented to an ACM conference in 1998. Suggests minimum conditions to be met to ethically justify the collection of personal data.
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Cookies - Provides an overview of cookies, an analysis of their privacy and consumer rights implications, an explanation of how marketers and others can use them responsibly, and a preview of developments in the area. By Roger Clarke.
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How Web Servers' Cookies Threaten Your Privacy - Cookies related information from a privacy perspective. By Junkbusters Corporation.
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Internet Explorer Cookies are World-Readable - Article about a security hole in Microsoft IE which lets anyone see your cookies.
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Browser Cookie Assistance - Learn how to enable and disable browser cookies in Internet Explorer and Netscape.
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How Stuff Works: Internet Cookies - Learn exactly how Internet cookies work, see an example, and understand what all the media uproar is about.
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EPIC Cookies Page - A collection of cookies related standards, news, and resources, from a privacy perspective. By Electronic Privacy Information Center.
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Cookies--No Fuss, No Muss - Many of the dangers of cookies can be avoided by making cookies files read-only. Here's how.
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Cookie Pal - A complete internet cookie management program for Windows, by Kookaburra Software.
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Dockside.net - Cookies, it seems, are okay - Article written by Brian Pitre.
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