Privacy and Cookies Cookies play a significant role in our daily life, it brings lots of convenient when we use website. However, many people afraid that it will leak our privacy at the same time as it convenient to us. Although cookies are controversial, there is nothing wrong with them. The data collectors should take responsibility to protect users’ information, also users should be aware and careful when they use the website.
1. What are cookies The cookies are a data packet. Every time, when the users visit a website, the browser will send site’s Cookies back to the site server. Meanwhile, this site can change the cookie which stores on your computer freely. There is not only one Cookie on your computer, each website has its own Cookies
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If the data collectors notify the user that their data will be collected, and how will they use these data. Meanwhile, they also give the user the right to choose if they want their data to be collected or not. In my opinion, this is not the invasion of the user privacy. By the data protection law, it states that people are aware of how information collected about them will be used. However, most of the people do not have enough knowledge about data protection law, and the serious effect of the Cookies behind their operator. CNN conducted a survey showed that most the public, about 56%, did not know that websites and advertisers have the capability to track their activities by placing cookies on their hard drives [4]. As users themselves, we are on the heels of increasing our vigilance right now, because many unethical merchants will gain their benefit by violating our privacy through blind spots of our knowledge. Schools or the news media should also pay attention. Schools should provide courses to educate students, so that, students can go back and tell their families and friends. News media should also report more relevant things to make people more …show more content…
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In the Engineering and Technology Journal, two engineers, Gareth Mitchell and Guy Clapperton, gave their thoughts on both sides of the privacy issue. Is gathering information violating personal privacy? They made their arguments using currency as a metaphor for personal information and online services a product. Mitchell argues the case that giving out personal information is “too high a price to pay” (Mitchell, 2013, p. 26). He says that despite the option to opt out of cookies and certain information, many sites are more covert and make their opt out option less accessible than a pop up asking to opt out. The site makes it hard for the Internet user to say no to being tracked. Mitchell warns the reader to take more consideration into what information they are giving away and that “privacy is not to be taken for granted” (Mitchell, 2013, p. 26). Getting information from the Internet would mean tra...
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Advertisement agencies use behavioral advertisement, or third party cookies, to track customers on and off their client’s website. This allows them to create specific banner ads that display content viewed and not purchased, in hopes of getting a larger customer return and purchase rate. This practice is increasing among e-commerce and is raising concerns with ethical and privacy advocators.
The personal connection Americans have with their phones, tablets, and computers; and the rising popularity of online shopping and social websites due to the massive influence the social media has on Americans, it is clear why this generation is called the Information Age, also known as Digital Age. With the Internet being a huge part of our lives, more and more personal data is being made available, because of our ever-increasing dependence and use of the Internet on our phones, tablets, and computers. Some corporations such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook; governments, and other third parties have been tracking our internet use and acquiring data in order to provide personalized services and advertisements for consumers. Many American such as Nicholas Carr who wrote the article “Tracking Is an Assault on Liberty, With Real Dangers,” Anil Dagar who wrote the article “Internet, Economy and Privacy,” and Grace Nasri who wrote the article “Why Consumers are Increasingly Willing to Trade Data for Personalization,” believe that the continuing loss of personal privacy may lead us as a society to devalue the concept of privacy and see privacy as outdated and unimportant. Privacy is dead and corporations, governments, and third parties murdered it for their personal gain not for the interest of the public as they claim. There are more disadvantages than advantages on letting corporations, governments, and third parties track and acquire data to personalized services and advertisements for us.
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Different people, cultures, and nations have a wide variety of expectations about how much privacy is entitled to or what constitutes an invasion of privacy. Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information. Personal privacy has been declining in the past year which is caused by today’s technological society. With the latest technology such as face scanners, data collecting, and highly advanced software’s, privacy can be compromised, which is exactly what is being done today and it is unconstitutionally intrusive.
The other type of information includes non-personal information about customers which are collected using servers and other technology. Qantas website can collect such information using techniques of online researches which are internet based research that requires very few resources and has a quick access over large respondents (Buchanan 2009). Online research can be done through online tracking and observing customer browsing habits with the help of cookies. Cookies are small text files stored on the system hard drive by a website or web server that are used to keep track of websites visited by users (Buchanan, Gallant, and Miller 2010). It was found that after the introduction of cookies the web started to become a space capable of extraordinary monitoring (Schwartz 2001). Cookies enable Qantas to keep logs of customers’ use of their website as well as non-Qantas webpage’s visited by customers. Cookies track information such as the number
Ever since day one, people have been developing and creating all sorts of new methods and machines to help better everyday life in one way or another. Who can forget the invention of the ever-wondrous telephone? And we can’t forget how innovative and life-changing computers have been. However, while all machines have their positive uses, there can also be many negatives depending on how one uses said machines, wiretapping in on phone conversations, using spyware to quietly survey every keystroke and click one makes, and many other methods of unwanted snooping have arisen. As a result, laws have been made to make sure these negative uses are not taken advantage of by anyone.
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You can see that data can be pulled from users’ search history, browser history, online preferences, social and working connections, medical knowledge and all aspects of a persons’ life is gathered. The data can be shared with marketers, advertisers, researchers and government agencies. As such, the above habit raises eyebrows in regards to an infringement into the privacy rights of an individual (Daniel, 2009).
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...try to ensure Internet security. More practically, marketers must try to target consumer groups more accurately. Minimizing unwanted consumer contacts may reduce the intensity and visibility of some dimensions of privacy issues. Last, marketing researchers must attempt to define privacy operationally. Much has been said and written about consumer privacy, but we still have little understanding of what information consumers consider private, why they consider it private, and whether this set of information changes situationally or in response to other factors.