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FCC Meets To Investigate Cookie Abuse
PreacherTom writes to tell us BusinessWeek is reporting that the FCC and the Center for Digital Democracy plan to meet in order to discuss abuses with regard to cookies. From the article: "Online advertisers have a sweet tooth for cookies. Not the kind you bake, but the digital kind — those tiny files that embed themselves on a PC and keep tabs on what Web sites are visited on which machines. But cookies could have a bad aftertaste for consumers. Privacy advocates say the files are being force fed in large quantities to computer users, and they're demanding that the government put some advertisers on a diet."
I'm sorry, I'm sorry! But when you leave a box of those girl scout confections next to me, what do you think I'm going to do? They're gone after a few lines of coding and I don't even remember eating them!
*breaks down sobbing
I'm a sick man! I need help! Someone just check me into the Betty Crocker clinic already!
Suggested tag: thinkofthecookies
Thousands of children arrested for crumbling cookies and drowning them in milk.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Cookie Monster replied, "Me not guilty. Cookie goooooooooooood!"
Is there any thing we can do about cookie pun abuse?
Thanks, Business Week. I've never heard any of those before. Perhaps you can stick in a few "roadkill on the information superhighway" gags while you're at it.
This guy
What ever happened to sane usage of cookies where they'd only be set if you did something on the site that initiated a cookie transfer (e.g. logging in, starting a shopping cart, storing your preferences)?
Oh man, remember those good old days? Before every site was covered in AdSense. When MySpace was the glimmer in some nerds eye. Before every moron lip-synced horrible songs on YouTube. When email was used for communication. When people actually used correct English. When Pluto was still a planet.
I remember!!! Flobble-de-flee!
I wonder if I use bold in my signature, people will notice my posts.
Honestly, some people won't be satisfied until the government publishes a 500 page manual on how to wipe your ass and makes it illegal to do it in any other way.
I wouldn't mind if the government gave me a 500 page manual for wiping my ass. As long as the pages were soft - that is.
it wants its emerging privacy risk back.
The website says FTC. The slashdot post says FCC.
Harhar, I just nullified your +4 Insightful comment. I wonder, will this give me a +troll?