Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Your Online Privacy Choices: Does anyone watching you and tracking your clicks?

Do you know that every click you make can be tracked by someone using a computer which is even miles away? Yes, this do happen if you dont have appropriate antivirus and antitheft tools installed. It would be better to install an online firewall as well.

http://www.freeimageslive.com/galleries/transtech/computer/pics/screen3.jpgEvery click you make is tracked by ad companies who tend to collect information on your behavior and then sell it to other advertisers who want you to be their target too. There are zombie cookies that respawn instead of die. And then security researcher/hacker Samy Kamkar came up with an open source evercookie that would have to qualify as the cookie tracker from hell; it stores itself in eight different places. Even if the user deletes their cookies, it only takes one cookie to escape notice and enables most, if not all, of the cookies to reset.

There is no bullet-proof method to avoid being tracked, but there are some companies who are doing the hard work for you.

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