“There is no getting away from how incredibly valuable our data is. In 2018, the Global Data Mining Tools Market was valued at $591.2 million and is projected to reach $1.21 billion by 2025. That’s why online data collection is increasingly insidious and continuous. Today, more data can be collected than ever before. People create as much data every two days as they did from the beginning of time until the year 2000.”
How Companies Legally Harvest Your Data (And How to Stop Them) Aidan Fitzpatrick
I have been sharing how we are being harvested by the corporations, the government, and other entities for our DNA and our body organs–but our personal data is also being monitored and collected as well.
Corporations, the government, numerous unsavory characters and entities are collecting and analyzing our information, often unbeknownst to us. Multiple entities are scouring the Internet to secure our personal information, often for sale to third parties. All too often we give them our data through what they call cookies when we visit various Websites.
“A cookie is a small bit of information that a website stores on your computer. When you revisit the website, your browser sends the information back to the site. Usually a cookie is designed to remember and tell a website some useful information about you. For example, an online bookstore might use a persistent cookie to record the authors and titles of books you have ordered. When you return to the online bookstore, your browser lets the bookstore’s site read the cookie. The site might then compile a list of books by the same authors or books on related topics and show you that list…there are two commonly known types of cookies.
One is called a “session” or “non-persistent cookie.” It is a cookie that only lasts as long as your session on the website and expires as soon as you leave. It is used to facilitate your activities within that site. For example, if you are shopping on an e-commerce site, this cookie enables their server to remember the items you are purchasing as you move about within the site. These are very common in many websites, as they are a standard part of Microsoft’s Active Server Page environment, an industry standard Web tool.
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