The invention of the Internet has created a revolution in the way people go about finding information and even purchase goods. With the marked increase of Internet use, and the growing amount of commerce and exchange happening on the Internet, some kind of control device has become seemingly necessary. The need for Internet control has led to the creation of computer tracking devices by companies such as Microsoft and Intel. Now, debate over these computer tracking capabilities seems to have pit businesses against the private citizen.
Many private citizens feel that Internet tracking capability is a breach of personal privacy.
Businesses maintain that while small aspects of personal privacy may be lost, the advantages of tracking capabilities far outweigh the disadvantages. Much of the need for tracking capabilities was born out of the need to make the increasing amounts of e-commerce more secure. Both business and government realize with growing awareness that some kind of method was necessary to ensure secure transactions via the Internet. Criminals had found a medium upon which there was little if any policing, and almost no laws for the prosecution or even definition of cybercrime. Hence, criminals were working in a virtual Candyland, and business and government saw the need for some sort of solution.