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The cookie protocol states clearly that a web site can only read cookies that it has created. This should mean that cookies comply with the Code of Fair Information Practices in this area. However, it unfortunately doesn't mean that you know who has information that has been gathered. To begin with, the cookie is a means to identify you as a visitor to a web site, but information that you supply to the site, such as preferences or demographic information, may be stored on the site's server and also may be passed along to others without your knowledge. Also, services like Doubleclick create a way to gather and pass information across sites so the user has no idea which sites are receiving the information.
Limiting the use of cookies to the site that created them partially fulfills the intention of the Code. In addition, we would need some guarantee that the information that is obtained through cookies is not transferred to others without our permission. |