By Ellyne Phneah
, ZDNet Asia on September 19, 2011
Difficult to remove new type of cookie which can track user history and
preference, giving rise to privacy concerns, note experts, but add that
supercookies aren't legal issue for now. [
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What do I think?
The author list out few option as preventive measurements on supercookies which I have doubt that the solution can work perfectly. As privacy concern rise over the past few years especially after Facebook became a must nowadays with Google fighting back to gain their market using Google+, but I don't think people at the moment really cares on concern on issues. They just share their information for the sake of accessing some entertainment website or playing games with their friends over the net. Although some people realize about it, but yet to bring an impact and to raise concern over privacy, it is still a long journey to go.
However, what if they do cares about it? The propose solutions is just temporary or might not work at all or might have little impact.
Is there any solutions better than proposed solutions? Absolutely NO. The only things can be done is by educating users on the issues and implementing what we call as anonymization; whereby a user is unknown but yet he is known for him to be able to use specific functionality or process. This is a research and hope to be implemented soon (although there are security drawback of it - difficult to implement security forensic).
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