Flash Cookies and Consumers Privacy

A recent study called "Flash Cookies and Privacy" reports that, now days growing the number of consumers who are taking legal action against company that track computer users’ activity on the Internet. At issue is a little-known piece of computer code placed on hard drives by the Flash program from Adobe when users watch videos on popular Web sites like YouTube.
The technology, so-called Flash cookies, a new way of tracing your movement and storing a lot more information about you than with normal cookies. Unlike HTML cookies, which store Web site preferences and can be managed by changing privacy settings in a Web browser, Flash cookies are stored in a separate directory that many users are unaware of and may not know how to control. Normal HTTP cookies can’t save more than 4 Kilobyte of data while Flash cookies can save up to 100 Kilobyte.   Read More