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Are cookies still better for your Company's image? (TechWeb, 16. March 1998)
The consulting services for IT issues of the Energy Ministry of the USA (www.doe.gov) has published an information sheet that removes all second thoughts of data protection officials regarding the so-called cookies.
Cookies enable recording visits of internet users on certain web pages. Claims that cookies enable revealing passwords, credit card numbers and software on your computer are unreasonable, according to the information sheet. Information collected with help of cookies can be in fact mostly IP addresses, which browser and operating system the user uses, and can also be revealed by using protocol data of a server. "With help of cookies, a server can neither find out the user's name and his email address nor any information about the used computer", explains the information sheet.