The Detroit News. Cookies are information about a user planted by Web sites onto the hard drive of the user's computer, for the site to access each time the person visits.
People have no idea their thoughts and practices on the Internet are being tracked or policed.
We're going after this secret, third-party surveillance. Cookies have been a controversial issue in the Internet world for several years. Many major companies, including The Detroit News, use cookies to tailor their Web sites to the users' interests. The sharing of information from cookies is part of the growing concern about a loss of privacy on the Internet and how commercial Web sites use information. We should have privacy laws to protect us from them.