COMMENT April 2021 Automation Smarter solutions for industrial efficiency
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f you are anything like me, you’re regularly annoyed at all the “accept the cookies” prompts we deal with on our screens each time we use the Internet – and let’s face it, we use online services a lot! Companies, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and browsers all demand that we agree to their bits of software – aka cookies – being installed on our machines. Many go quite a lot further than just make online sites and services function better, however, – they follow each click and move we make, and even link and cross- reference the other devices we use. Adding insult to injury, some sites are blatantly open about tracking our moves, with email followups like “We’ve seen you check this out – have another look” – which is cyberstalking! If this kind of snooping took place in a physical store, with someone darting in and out of aisles following us around and checking what we buy, they’d be promptly marched off to the police station. Now GDPR rules and regulations are dodged with “super cookies”. With “normal” web cookies, if users want to remain anonymous, they can opt out, block or delete them. Super cookies, however, respawn via scripts or nestle in locations on our machines where they are difficult to pin down and remove. Constantly tracking the browsers, not much comes in their way, apart from a VPN perhaps. Super cookies track whatever they are designed to track, to enable other parties to gather a profile on each of us. They can be connected to various other services and datasets, which we may or may not approve of. They have been specifically designed to be a moving target and difficult to get rid of, by being hidden or able to respawn. Hence, industry pundits think super cookies should be treated as malware.
Ultimately, super cookies are a privacy violation and should not exist – certainly not on our machines. When possible, combat them with a VPN and private browsing sessions, or use a privileged browsing session tool when accessing business accounts. Your profile and your company’s private data should be just that – private!
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