The Cookie Controversy

The Cookie Controversy Most of us know cookies as tasty treats that are baked in the oven but now there is a new kind of cookie and it is stirring up privacy issues with Internet users. A cookie is a text-only file that gets entered into the memory of a web browser. Various web sights use cookies to help with on-line sales and services, tracking popular links, and demographics. When you visit a sight that …

…as anonymous as you want to be. Revealing any kind of personal information opens the door for that information to spread. While cookies themselves do not gather that information, they are used as a tracking device to help people who are gathering information. As information is gathered about you, it is associated with the value they keep in your cookie. For this reason, cookies have become an increasing topic of discussion in the online world.