in its scope, however, the second exception could be expansively interpreted, undermining the legislative intention of the drafters of the Directive. The impulse of commercial organisations will be to argue that cookies which facilitate online commerce are ‘strictly necessary.’ This desire to interpret widely must be resisted since to significantly increase the range of instances where cookies do not need to be notified to the surfer will erode online privacy and consumer autonomy. Such an approach would inure the public to automatic use of cookies.
The law effectively makes no distinction between essential cookies and non-essential cookies. This is regrettable. The law should have been more forceful on this point and made a greater distinction between the two types of cookie.
Similar concerns to those directed at cookies can be applied to the use of web bugs. Web bugs are graphics that are placed in e-mails or web sites to track visitors. Web bugs on websites collect information about the IP address of the visiting computer, the browser and the time of the visit. E-mail web bugs check when the message was read, how often it was forwarded and the IP of the recipient.
Cookies can be temporary or permanent and can be designed to either assist with the navigability of the website or track the website activity of the visitor. Cookies t英语论文网 【http://www.51lunwen.org】hat are not designed to streamline the user’s online experience are also permitted where the user has been informed of the existence of the cookie and the cookie is being used to analyse the effectiveness of website advertising or design and used for the purpose of verification. A useful distinction can be made between site specific cookies and third party cookies. Examples of more insidious applications of cookies include DoubleClick’s cookies. DoubleClick’s cookies are assigned a unique identifier, allowing the user’s visits to any websites to be logged, along with a record of the content viewed. The cookie is not site-specific but rather trawls through and logs all internet activity conducted on the infected user’s computer.
A user can change the browser’s privacy profile but this may mean that certain websites are un-navigable since every page visited will request that a cookie is sent to the hard drive, seriously interrupting the flow of webpages. In addition, the default privacy levels of the browser may be set too low to be of any practical use. It is essential that consumers need to be made aware of this, so that they can reset the factory preferences accordingly.
Solutions to spyware require an international approach that provides coherency and consistency. There will always be such software or a desire to get valuable personal information about consumer demographic
本文来自：英语论文网 【http://www.51lunwen.org】 |
论文编号：
org200806160940437174 
