Company Bypasses Cookie-Deleting Consumers

Thu Mar 31, 5:14 PM ET


United Virtualities is offering online marketers and publishers
technology that attempts to undermine the growing trend among
consumers to delete cookies planted in their computers.

The New York company on Thursday unveiled what it calls PIE, or
persistent identification element, a technology that's uploaded to a
browser and restores deleted cookies. In addition, PIE, which can't be
easily removed, can also act as a cookie backup, since it contains the
same information.

http://************/6pfct (Yahoo news)

Sounds like spyware to me! Who is making a blocker/remover for this
one?


-dan z-


"(9/11 and the aftermath will) require a re-evaluation of the importance of
some of our specific civil liberties. I think there are going to be debates
about what can be said where, what can be printed where, what kind of
freedom of movement people have and whether it's OK for a policeman to ask
for your ID just because you're walking down the street."
-- Democrat Howard Dean after 9/11