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Precise analysis about The legal or illegal utilization of Internet cookies
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Introduction
Customers’ privacy: Precise analysis about
The legal or illegal utilization of
Internet cookies
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Introduction
Increasingly, dependencies to the Internet and online shopping are being placed among People. Every wise business man can quickly realize this opportunity and its profitable commercial potential. According to Gilbert (cited in Palmer 2005, paras 2-3), in recent years, Internet sales have grown incredibly, by 2002, 67 million American were buying their goods via internet. Beside this potential place for businesses, marketers are always like to identify and track highly active customers. By growing the importance of commerce in the Internet, some of annoying marketing techniques such as cookies and spamming has been rapidly grown among marketers which are problem for most Internet users. It is clear that the most important thing in Internet for every user is privacy. These years, Cookies (not edible or delicious one), has been a controversial debate among users in case of Internet privacy threat.
Despite apparent disaffection of Internet users about cookies it is still firmly used by most marketers. The problem is there is not any firm legislation and clear explanation about cookies. As Swartz argues (cited in Palmer 2005, paras 2-3), recent high level of attempts to perform legislation about cookies performance, show public sense of concerns among Internet users about Electronic Commerce new techniques. It must be completely clear for every user that how and when their information are used by marketers and most important thing is what kind of information do usually marketers use for their business profits.
However, it have been done a lot of research about cookies and also most of Internet users have at least primary knowledge about Internet cookies but most users do not know about cookies threat and also they even do not know how can they completely block or delete the cookies.
Middle
N
Y
91% Y
Familiarity
with
cookies
N
Y
N
Y
Y
N
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
75% Y
Viewpoint
on
cookies
---
Neg
---
Neu
Pos
---
Neg
Neu
Pos
Neg
Neg
Pos
33% Neg
Getting data without permission
Disag.
Disag.
Disag.
Disag.
Agree
Disag.
Disag.
Agree.
Agree.
Disag.
Disag.
Agree
66% Disag.
Table 1 provides the number of important various aspects about Internet cookies. First (refer to the first row of table 1) it demonstrates measure of online shopping popularity among some Internet users. According to the result, all of the interviewees except one of them have online shopping experience (91%), which means these days most Internet users have been rapidly trended toward online shopping. This result is similar to those of Gilbert (cited in Palmer 2005, paras 2-3), who says Internet sales and online shopping has grown quickly in recent years.
Table 1. Internet users’ information about Internet cookies and their experience.[1]
Secondly (refer to the second row of table 1), this table demonstrates Internet users’ familiarity with cookies. As stated by results, 75% of 12 users are familiar with Internet cookies which it is a good result about Internet users’ awareness about cookies. This result may also exhibit their consciousness about privacy in Internet. Consequently, at the first glance, it might appear that most of Internet users are careful about cookies threat and also have a negative outlook about cookies but according the third results of table 1 (third row), almost 40% of respondents have neutral or even positive point of view about cookies. User 5 (pers. Comm. June 20, 2007) says “I think the threat the threat to your privacy is overrated. I do not think they are dangerous unless you are buying from a dangerous website and if you want to buy anything from that sort of website then serves you right if you get in trouble”.
Conclusion
If more questionnaires had been replied by respondents, it would have been easier to reach a more comprehensive conclusion about Internet cookies. There were some obstacles such as lack of time and limited number of respondents which caused my research not to be as accurate as it could be.
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[1] Y=yes, N=no, Neg=negative, Pos=positive, Neu=neutral, Disag=disagree
[2] Y=yes, N=no
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