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Cookies have become a symbol of privacy invasion on the Internet yet there is nothing inherent in the cookie protocol that makes them an anti-privacy tool. Cookies were created to carry information from one web page access to another so that things like user preferences and password access could be applied for an online session. Like most technology, the difference between privacy invasion and privacy protection is in the implementation of the technology and the use that is made of the information that passes from one person to another.
As an exercise, Let's apply the basic rules of the Fair Information Practices to cookies and see if different choices could make cookies less invasive of our privacy. |