Saturday 18 February 2012

MORE ONLINE PRIVACY ISSUES: GOOGLE AND COOKIES.




This is a BBC article that suggests that Google have been bypassing the privacy settings of the safari web-browser to allow cookies to gather more user information for the advertising industry. STUDENTS NEED TO BE AWARE OF HOW THE COOKIE RELATES TO THE ADVERTISING INDUSTRY AND YOUR ONLINE VIEWING HABITS.

Here is a link to the ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION which is an online organisation formed with the aim of defending the digital rights of the individual. Students might want to peruse this site:

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