For example, cookies served during an on-line shopping session may help direct customers to preferred areas. In contrast, Lin discusses the use of cookies by target marketers to monitor consumer habits where the information will be unethically centralized. D. Primeaux discussed e-mail privacy, arguing that the traditional philosophical frameworks about ethics are not adequate for analyzing today's ethical issues. He described an alternative model based on Habermas' concept of the public sphere, namely, that communicated acts define the public sphere. Resources are shared but not given away in such an environment.
Justification is required for any encroachment.
He argues that e-mail is a process of communicating data. Privacy is an integral part of it. Now that the web is maturing, its potential as a source of power and knowledge is becoming widely acknowledged. With power comes politics and political communities. In this session, speakers addressed the political possibilities of the web.