Is it Me - Again ???

I use the Internet for work and leisure every day and have done so since it has become available to the general public in UK and I have noticed the increasing pervasiveness of - so called “Cookies”.

The name “Cookie” can give the impression that the placing and reading of information from Your computer by external entities is harmless. Maybe this was so in the past, but things have moved on and now the placing and use of “So called Cookies” is a Serious Money Making Business. So much so that increasingly “Web Sites” will not allow “Web Users” to access their “Web Sites” unless “Cookies” are allowed.

The result is that many “Web Users” just “Click” on the “Icon” or “Link” or “Button” so that they can continue accessing these “Web Sites” and the Companies that “Host” their “Web Sites” excuse their behaviour by extolling that their use of “Cookies” is for the viewer’s benefit and can lead to better and easier user experience of their “Web Site” (Its really only for your benefit honest).

What is not mentioned in any detail is that they are Writing and Reading files to / from Your computer that not only monitor your use of their “Web Site”, but send data, via applications you don’t know about, via Your network link either back to themselves or other “Partners” (who could be anybody). In short, they are “Hacking” your computer for their benefit, Not Yours. Yet throughout every day millions of people are - by Default - allowing the “Hacking” of their data and it seems that they just don’t care.

Well I and I hope many others do.

Because this situation has occurred slowly over time, Business has generated an ethos that they have a right to do what they see fit with Your computer and Your data. This is exemplified by the “Trojan Horse” called “GDPR”, it was written with Business in mind with the public coming far behind. If you take out all the froth, it is impossible for a member of the public to have all their data deleted from a business if that Business is using it for “Legitimate” purposes - “Whatever They Are” it’s not defined of course.

In the future, the bottom line will be that the public will buy computers for their work or leisure which will just be a “Legalised” open door to Businesses and of Course Governments and there will be no private information at all. Think about it, “Dr Who”, “Blade Runner”, “Hunger Games” are all out there waiting unless something is done about this.

Allowing the Public, a non-equivocal Veto on the Business use of their “Personal Data” would be a start and the outlawing of the coercion to use “Cookies” to view a “Web Site”.

In the end, the “Public will Get What They Deserve” if they do Nothing, after all for the “Devil to Do his Work” all it Takes is for “Good Men to Do Nothing”.