Thursday, 29 January 2009

Week 2 Topic QB continued

Additionally, there are serious and even worrying implications to being online, the revealing of your personal identity to businesses on the internet for financial gain. Cookies are implemented on every site you go onto. They are allowed to see what you search for and therefore what sort of advertisement you require. Every minute of your life on the Internet is looked at; advertisers in a sense manipulate you into buying a particular product through pinpointing of their advertisements. Therefore the sense of choice from the Internet is not entirely true for Internet users.

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