CS330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Http Cookie, Temporary Folder, Personal Information Protection And Electronic Documents Act
4 Aug 2016
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Chapters 4 ethical, social, and legal issues in the digital firm. It is easy for a website to take your information for their own (dual ownership) through web cookies, web bugs, and spyware. Session cookies; stored in the browsers temporary folder. Persistent cookies: permanently in browsers subfolder and activate when returned to the site. Two thirds of companies are tracking users, usually with no warning. Current laws are forcing web pages to ask if you want cookies or not. The online privacy alliance promotes the use of online seals. First party: come from the site you visit. Third party: used for advertising, come from a website you are not visiting object places in web page or email to track user behaviour information tracker usually secretly bundled into freeware, for marketing purposes. Copyright: prohibits copying of entire software, but not the underlying ideas. Patent: monopoly on the idea for 20 years.
