Internet Cookies

Ethics Paper – The Use of Cookies A cookie is not just a sweat tasting baked food anymore. Today in the age of the Internet the word cookie has taken on a whole new meaning. A cookie in cyberspace is a small piece of information written to the hard drive of an Internet user when he or she visits a web site that offers cookies. It is a very small text file containing a variety of …

…require surfers to accept cookies before being allowed onto their page. Cookies are a hot topic in the Internet industry. Most average users are not aware of the amount of cookies being placed on their hard drives. Nor are they aware of the huge amount of information they are supplying to companies everyday. If Internet users had the right information about cookies and knew what they are giving away, most people would reject cookies altogether.