Re: cookies and privacy

• To: paulp@cerf.net (Paul Phillips)
• Subject: Re: cookies and privacy
• From: Eric Wieling <ewieling@hephaestus.icorp.net>
• Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:39:51 -0500 (CDT)
• Cc: dmk@allegra.att.com, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
• In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960715193557.28747D-100000@nic.cerf.net> from "Paul Phillips" at Jul 15, 96 08:25:43 pm

Some time ago Paul Phillips said:

> What percentage of the web-using population do you suppose has even the 
> foggiest idea who DoubleClick is, and of those, how many accurately 
> understand what it is that they did, and to what extent it poses a threat
> to their personal information? Vanishingly few.  This is not the sort of
> atmosphere where public opinion is an effective or just tool for deterring
> unethical behavior.

A lot more now.  There was a story on NPR about cookies and
DoubleClick the other day.

-- 
Eric Wieling
Advanced Network Research
InterCommerce Corporation
Pager: 800-758-3680

If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are
going to start thinking you're from New York.   :-)
        --Larry Wall to Dan Bernstein

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