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Conclusions
Technological periodicals, academics, and newspaper articles routinely define cookies as ‘‘a few lines of text,’’ ‘‘short pieces of information,’’ ‘‘a record,’’ or simply ‘‘a number.’’ Ironically, Netscape is one of the few sources that accurately define cookies as ‘‘a mechanism.’’ In the more widely circulated ‘‘data’’ definition, we find a consistent client (user) definition after the fact—that is, absent the process by which such pieces of ‘‘data’’ come to be stored on or accessed via a user’s hard drive. And although Netscape’s definition correctly focuses on the technology and not on the product of the technology, the company’s actual deployment of cookies since 1994 has a much closer affinity with the ‘‘data’’ definition. In other words, the Netscape browser’s privacy solutions or controls for cookies focus on the cookie files on users’ own hard drives.As this chapter has shown, the act of disabling cookies highlights their link to the server side of the Web where once convenient and relevant sites such as MyYahoo! now inform users that their decision to refuse cookies has produced an ‘‘error.’’ With the help of a default set on ‘‘Accept cookie’’ preferences and cookie options that significantly limit, disable, or disrupt the convenient flow of relevant online information and services, the release of personal online information (previously automated in early versions of Netscape browsers) has now become either an automatic or forced ‘‘choice’’ for PC Web users.[http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user/survey-1998- 10/graphs/use/q81>).
