IP: 'Web Bugs' Are Tracking Use of Internet

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: 'Web Bugs' Are Tracking Use of Internet
>
> 'Web Bugs' Are Tracking Use of Internet
>
> By JOHN SCHWARTZ
> The New York Times
>
> any people who have personal Web pages are unknowingly tracking people who
> visit and sending the information to third parties, according to a new
> report.
>
> The report — which will be released today by Cyveillance, which tracks
> Internet sites for corporate clients — says that the use of an Internet
> monitoring technology popularly known as "Web bugs" has exploded on personal
> Web pages — especially those created free through online companies like
> America Online and Geocities, a company owned by Yahoo (news/quote). The
> monitoring technology, which can be used to gather information on visitors
> to a Web site, is invisibly added to the Web pages as part of elements that
> the sites offer to help create the Web page.
>
> --SNIP--
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/14/technology/ebusiness/14WEB.html



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