Although a directive will put a stop last year, the cookies are evolving towards more intrusive tracking the activities of the inter-sailors. A report by ENISA (European Security Agency's Information Network) warns against a dangerous new type of cookie , those files are downloaded to your computer whenever navigation with improvements to be more powerful in their mission give details of the Internet marketing firms.
ensures that the advertising industry is developing cyber tools ' persistent and powerful' , which called cookies bittersweet, in a pun derived from the meaning of the word cookie. According to the report, the software retains more information from the user and is very transparent in its management, which complicates the possibilities to quantify its actual damages.
A European privacy directive requires that such request tracking tools permit users to install on their computers, give them the option to accept its conditions of use and removal systems contain. However, in most cases, users can manage cookies easily. Therefore, the study notes that ' there is much work to do to bring these cookies next generation, at least the same level of visibility and control' than previous models to which we were all accustomed '.
The report claims that many websites now require that the user accepts the download to your computer the cookies or not have access to their services, without offering another alternative possibility that does not put gambling with your privacy.
Therefore the Agency is investigating and has requested more information to companies in the industry to see how these programs, claiming that users are informed. It also recommends that the prohibition of all those cookies that are beyond the control of Internet user.
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