Cookies and Lawsuits

Calif. Supreme Court approves warrantless data seizures by police

I don't use a mobile phone or computer, but if you do, don't get arrested in California.
 
Personally, I think the plaintiff has a good case. I don't see a lot of difference between planting an unwanted cookie on a computer to keep track of what a person does and tapping a telephone or bugging a house or other place that person frequents. All are or should be an illegal violation of privacy. :mad:

At the same time, a court ordered cookie might be legit, just as a phone tap is.
 
I often use the InPrivate Browsing on my laptop. I'm not a fan of IE but there are some things I do where I have no choice.

InPrivate Browsing helps prevent Internet Explorer from storing data about your browsing session. This includes cookies, temporary Internet files, history, and other data. Toolbars and extensions are disabled by default.
 
I use Mozilla Firefox with similar add-ons. Cookies dumped on exit.
And I don't let ggogle-analytics get a look-in.
 
There is another way to browse without leaving tracks on the computer you are using...well there used to be a program called Mojo that was placed on a USB Flash Drive. You started it up and it ran IE or FireFox from you desktop or laptop but kept all those pesky files you don't want hanging around on the USB Drive.

Problem was it XP compatible and I don't think anyone ever upgraded it to Vista or Win7. It was actually pretty cool. You could use your buddies computer and he would never know you were there.
 
Some cookies are okay, such as the one that lets me log onto Lit. without putting in my name and password. :)
 
I've just deleted mine - again.

My security program found three trojans set to work only when I deleted cookies. :mad:

Og
 
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