Internet 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 website that offers cookies. It is a very small text file containing a variety of information including the name of the website that issued it, where on site a user has visited, passwords and usernames belonging to the user. In some cases, cookies can contain such private information as credit card numbers and other personal data. Many times, Internet users have no idea that a cookie was ever placed onto their hard drive. This is why the placement of cookies onto hard drives is invasive, deceitful and ethically wrong. Cookies are an invasive tool used by companies to track users and their profiles. These cookies are placed onto the hard drives of Internet users; their hard drives are their personal property and should not be tampered with.
