Data Communications

"Cookies and their Impact on Privacy"

In today's fast paced world of internet commerce it would be hard to accomplish many of the tasks without the creation of "cookies." Since their advent, cookies have been given a bad name and associated immediately with a loss of privacy. In April of 2001 a newspaper article defined cookies as, "…programs that Web sites put on your hard disk. They sit on your computer gathering information about you and everything you do on the Internet, and whenever the Web site wants to it can download all of the information the cookie has collected." (www.howstuffworks.com) This article could not be any farther from the truth. Cookies are not programs and do not perform any actions as they sit on your hard drive. According to Netscape, "Cookies are a general mechanism which server side connections (such as CGI scripts) can use to both store and retrieve information on the client side of the connection. The addition of a simple,......

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Title: Cookies & Privacy
Approximate Word Count: 553
Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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