Internet Cookies

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The term cookies is applied to the general mechanism which server side connections may employ for the purposes of storing and retrieving information from the client side of a connection. This paper examines the parameters that make up the cookie, the manner in which a cookie is used as well as the advantages and disadvantages to both user and website. In particular it discusses issues concerning Internet privacy.

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"However the major issue with cookies is with regard to Internet privacy and this has raised a lot of controversy on the use of cookies that infringes on the privacy of the users of the Internet. . This hue and cry has come about because of the way in which some companies utilize the information that the cookies can secure and there are two ways in which this misuse is seen. In the first instance this method of misuse has been the bane of Internet user for decades. The Web site that is visited by a user is capable of not only tracking the purchases made by the user, but also the various pages that are accessed by the reader including the various advertisement sites visited and so on. "

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