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Changing Internet
Use and
Privacy
Created by:
Apurva Swarnkar
MCA IIYr
Enroll. No.07915604412
**This survey was a telephone survey of 1,014 randomly selected adults between March 2
and March 6 of 2000, by Harris Interactive.
What is a cookie?
A text file which a website can store on
its visitors hard drives
Made up of numbers and letters
Generally, cookies are a simple ID file
Sometimes they can store more
complicated information
Also called name-value pairs
Why?
Frequent Buyer example
$$$ from Advertisers
Where are
cookies?
You can find cookie files on your hard
drive, your C drive.
Mmmm! cookies
They remember usernames for various
sites that require log-in
Also have the option to remember your
passwords for you!
Bittersweet: the
problems
Multiple users on the same hard drive
Family computer, internet cafes
Credit card fraud
Easily erasable
Throw off sites total counts