Cookies violate European privacy rules
GRONINGEN (DUTCH PRESS AGENCY) - the use of
internetcookies is in fight with all within the EU applying privacy
rules. That stands in afstudeeronderzoek of a groningse studente
information science to collecting personal details on Internet Cookies
is used to follow and identify the visitors of Internet pages.
They can contain information as a date/time of visit, names of
visited pages or bought products. So far there were Nerbonne of
the realm university groningen no research results available
concerning the nature according to hoogleraar information science J.
and the number of data which collect Internet pages with cookies
AnalyseStudente Nicoline Braat analysed 53,000 cookies to map which
data collect them. Moreover she went after how the protocol is
arranged on large scale personal bring together details from the
results becomes clear that the mechanism satisfies badly alarming to
the European private legislation. The protocol informs the user
and carries out no control on the recipient and collected data.
Also the beveiliging of the cookieprotocol serious shortage
shoots. It cannot guarantee that there no information leaks to
third parties Nerbonne states that in spite of these results cookies,
however, a necessary component remains of much online interaction.
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