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Cookies related information from a privacy perspective. By Junkbusters Corporation.
http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/cookies.html
A collection of cookies related standards, news, and resources, from a privacy perspective. By Electronic Privacy Information Center.
http://www.epic.org/privacy/internet/cookies/
Provides an overview of cookies, an analysis of their privacy and consumer rights implications, an explanation of how marketers and others can use them responsibly, and a preview of developments in the area. By Roger Clarke.
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/Cookies.html
Learn exactly how Internet cookies work, see an example, and understand what all the media uproar is about.
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Howstuffworks How Internet Cookies Work Internet cookies are incredibly simple, but they are one of those things that have taken on a life of their own. Cookies started receiving tremendous media attention back in 2000 because of Internet privacy concerns, and the debate still rages....Home page of the National Anti-Cookie League (NACL), an organization dedicated to the annihilation of internet-cookies and to the promotion of cookie-free web sites.
http://www.jdrn.com/nacl/
A complete internet cookie management program for Windows, by Kookaburra Software.
http://www.kburra.com/cpal.html
Makers of the award-winning Cookie Crusher, another fine cookie management program.
http://www.thelimitsoft.com/
Learn how to enable and disable browser cookies in Internet Explorer and Netscape.
http://www.chami.com/tips/internet/042499I.html
One person's opinion. Cookies are like a marketing guy following you around in the mall with a clipboard, so that advertisers can design more effective ways to sell you junk you don't need.
http://members.chello.hu/foog.inc/cookies.htm
Internet cookies endanger privacy. Article on the extent of data collection by third-party advertisers.
http://www.networkmagazine.com/a...eArticle?doc_id=NMG20000612S0003
Paper on computer ethics presented to an ACM conference in 1998. Suggests minimum conditions to be met to ethically justify the collection of personal data. 393K PDF.
http://cpe.njit.edu/dlnotes/CIS/...50/TakingTheByteOutOfCookies.pdf
Many of the dangers of cookies can be avoided by making cookies files read-only. Here's how.
http://fixmypages.com/fix/cookies.html
Article written by Brian Pitre.
http://www.dockside.net/articles/articles-aug1998.htm
Article about a security hole in Microsoft IE which lets anyone see your cookies.
http://www.peacefire.org/security/iecookies/
How to automatically accept or reject cookies with no extra software.
http://www.redlanternreview.com/Internet_cookies_1.html
The paper discusses cookies-related privacy and legal issues. By Viktor Mayer-Schönberger.
http://www.wvu.edu/~law/wvjolt/Arch/Mayer/Mayer.htm