COOKIES ON THE INTERNET
DEFINITION Cookies are bits of information the server on the internet deposits in your computer.
Some web sites require passwords and/or registration.Cookies remember your password registration. This lets you skip this step on each visit. Could be a handy thing?!
Cookies record your activity and send this information to the web site's computer unbeknownst to you so that they can monitor you, watching where you go.
Cookies let them assemble information about you.
- your interests
- what you buy
- what web page you visit
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Worse yet: "Imagine if you browsed a site promoting an AIDS conference, and then you bought plane tickets over the Web to the city where the conference was being held," the information systems analyst and designer asks. "If those two bits of information were sold to your health insurance company, you could find yourself deemed a high risk, and your insurance could be canceled." Tom Negrino, MacWorld.