Privacy and Cookies Cookies play a significant role in our daily life, it brings lots of convenient when we use website. However, many people afraid that it will leak our privacy at the same time as it convenient to us. Although cookies are controversial, there is nothing wrong with them. The data collectors should take responsibility to protect users’ information, also users should be aware and careful when they use the website. 1. What are cookies The cookies are a data packet. Every time, when the users visit a website, the browser will send site’s Cookies back to the site server. Meanwhile, this site can change the cookie which stores on your computer freely. There is not only one Cookie on your computer, each website has its own Cookies …show more content…
If the data collectors notify the user that their data will be collected, and how will they use these data. Meanwhile, they also give the user the right to choose if they want their data to be collected or not. In my opinion, this is not the invasion of the user privacy. By the data protection law, it states that people are aware of how information collected about them will be used. However, most of the people do not have enough knowledge about data protection law, and the serious effect of the Cookies behind their operator. CNN conducted a survey showed that most the public, about 56%, did not know that websites and advertisers have the capability to track their activities by placing cookies on their hard drives [4]. As users themselves, we are on the heels of increasing our vigilance right now, because many unethical merchants will gain their benefit by violating our privacy through blind spots of our knowledge. Schools or the news media should also pay attention. Schools should provide courses to educate students, so that, students can go back and tell their families and friends. News media should also report more relevant things to make people more …show more content…
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..., websites and online marketers do find ways around users’ precautions to gain personal information. There are many people out there who want to use personal information like credit card numbers or addresses to cause harm to others. These cases are the extremely negative ones that people want to and should avoid. The case of companies and third parties tracking browsing history and other information for advertising purposes hover over a finer line between good and bad. For some people, tracking can be considered convenient in terms of shopping for what they are interested in, and others may be uncomfortable with the thought of being tracked without knowing. As stated in the beginning, complete privacy is unlikely, but being informed about the tactics of the Internet can help one protect themselves and others in their care to be as careful and private as possible.
If big business’s past is any indication of its future, it proves that businesses cannot be trusted to act ethically towards the masses. There must be laws in place that protect the consumer and outline the extent an advertiser can reach before divulging into privacy violations. An opt-out or do not track option before behavioral advertisement occurs will sufficiently address the ethical and privacy concerns posed by behavioral advertisement. The line must be drawn in order to empower consumers with free will and to restrict the severity of big business surveillance.
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The other type of information includes non-personal information about customers which are collected using servers and other technology. Qantas website can collect such information using techniques of online researches which are internet based research that requires very few resources and has a quick access over large respondents (Buchanan 2009). Online research can be done through online tracking and observing customer browsing habits with the help of cookies. Cookies are small text files stored on the system hard drive by a website or web server that are used to keep track of websites visited by users (Buchanan, Gallant, and Miller 2010). It was found that after the introduction of cookies the web started to become a space capable of extraordinary monitoring (Schwartz 2001). Cookies enable Qantas to keep logs of customers’ use of their website as well as non-Qantas webpage’s visited by customers. Cookies track information such as the number
The personal connection Americans have with their phones, tablets, and computers; and the rising popularity of online shopping and social websites due to the massive influence the social media has on Americans, it is clear why this generation is called the Information Age, also known as Digital Age. With the Internet being a huge part of our lives, more and more personal data is being made available, because of our ever-increasing dependence and use of the Internet on our phones, tablets, and computers. Some corporations such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook; governments, and other third parties have been tracking our internet use and acquiring data in order to provide personalized services and advertisements for consumers. Many American such as Nicholas Carr who wrote the article “Tracking Is an Assault on Liberty, With Real Dangers,” Anil Dagar who wrote the article “Internet, Economy and Privacy,” and Grace Nasri who wrote the article “Why Consumers are Increasingly Willing to Trade Data for Personalization,” believe that the continuing loss of personal privacy may lead us as a society to devalue the concept of privacy and see privacy as outdated and unimportant. Privacy is dead and corporations, governments, and third parties murdered it for their personal gain not for the interest of the public as they claim. There are more disadvantages than advantages on letting corporations, governments, and third parties track and acquire data to personalized services and advertisements for us.
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Different people, cultures, and nations have a wide variety of expectations about how much privacy is entitled to or what constitutes an invasion of privacy. Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information. Personal privacy has been declining in the past year which is caused by today’s technological society. With the latest technology such as face scanners, data collecting, and highly advanced software’s, privacy can be compromised, which is exactly what is being done today and it is unconstitutionally intrusive.
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You can see that data can be pulled from users’ search history, browser history, online preferences, social and working connections, medical knowledge and all aspects of a persons’ life is gathered. The data can be shared with marketers, advertisers, researchers and government agencies. As such, the above habit raises eyebrows in regards to an infringement into the privacy rights of an individual (Daniel, 2009).
Microsoft has recently released a browser add-on intended to provide users with greater control over the browser-tracking cookies handed out by websites. The new features in the updated browser give you a clearer understanding of different types of cookies and where they originate, as well as an easier way to manage and delete them," according to Microsoft's download site. Microsoft's latest browser update has generated applause from privacy advocates -- and the hesitant acceptance of online advertising firms, which worried that rejected cookies could limit the effectiveness of targeted ads on the Web. Privacy advocates consider the dangers of the often-invisible user tracking that takes place on the Web to be tied in large part to third-party cookies. The latest...
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Today, many web sites on the internet can use "cookies" to keep track of passwords and usernames and track the sites a particular user visits (Cookiecentral.com). But, the use of cookies to track user's browsing habits is becoming a concern of many internet users. These concerned people are beginning to think of cookies as an invasion of privacy. Companies with web sites can use cookies to track what sites you visit frequently and then select specific ad banners to send to you on the web while surfing (Cookiecentral.com). Electronic Frontier Foundation's program director, Stanton McCandlish points out, "The potential problem is that companies without a sense of ethics could be doing [the] same thing and selling addresses to offline marketers" (news.cnet.com). The government should realize the hazards of internet cookies and enforce a ban on their use.
Created for communication, the internet, both the world wide web and the deep web, is the greatest way to transmit information between multiple platforms. The exponential growth of the internet only increased its use in the world, with a myriad of digital services, like the media, articles, forums, and entertainment and social platforms, especially twitter, youtube, facebook, and multiplayer gaming, using it as a vehicle for communication and spreading information, and possibly also influence. The uses of the Internet is good to know, sure, but what does it have to do with the concept of privacy? Today, the involvement of the internet with privacy gets quite convoluted, and countless issues, successes, controversies, and terrors have occurred
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