Does not matter. Cookies are passe. Flash databases and super cookies and browser fingerprints are more reliable. You can delete all the cookies you want. I can spend $0.20 and target ads to YOU on any of 1,000,000 web sites.
You can disable flash databases, super cookies and modify your installed plugins quite easily to change browser fingerprints etc. I can even kill my own IP session to get a new IP if I wanted so that $0.20 would be a poor investment.
The Silk browser on the Amazon Kindle Fire seems to be a browser specifically designed as a data mining tool with consequences for privacy, just as you would never use a Web proxy server to send/receive sensitive data.
Interestingly the Kindle Fire doesn't appear to be available yet in the UK, perhaps because of personal data privacy laws that are in place.
Your birth records, your school records, your job records, your credit profile, your driving profile, your health records, your prescriptions, your relationships with others - all tracked when you "opt in" by using, accessing, participating in this modern life.
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Data Protection Act of 1998 would make linking/sharing those databases illegal, but that doesn't mean to say that the UK Government hasn't attempted to do so. The main issue though is that of incompetence as most businesses and organisations in the UK barely have workable databases that are interlinked efficiently even within their own organisations. Thank goodness for incompetent Seibel programmers and UK government computer systems having a absolutely terrible record of efficient implementation.
Anyway why the need for the megalomaniac control freak operations collecting/selling and abusing personal information of its users and customers of these corporations.
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