  Privacy has been a major concern for everybody over the internet. Governments
across the globe have given their views on how the internet space can be
managed effectively so that there is some control on the flow of confidential
information and privacy to users and as well as to data is achieved. Taking
advantage of the lack of one unified body that could govern the online space
with its strict and stringent rules certain websites use the text files called
cookies in collecting data from users and using them for marketing them in
advertisements networks and third party websites with the help of JavaScript
and flash technologies. Even before many of us think what is happening around
us in the online usage we are being invaded by the cookies and are targeted
with their specific information that could tempt us to buy a product or service
to which we were longing for in the recent past. Though it may be argued its a
kind of marketing strategy to give the customer what he wants but it can no way
be something like the user is just being targeted because he has already shown
interest in something and he should be disturbed until he gets hold of
something. Its purely a security breach as most of the websites dont ask
permission for the usage of cookies and setting them into the users browser and
the most important thing is no privacy statement is issued that the information
is used for targeted marketing. This analysis paper has views from different
sources, an example of such an activity that is a potential security breach and
various other information of what these sites do to use the deadly cookies for
commercial tricks.
