The cookies are part of the website and store information about the person and where they go after they leave the page they are logged into. Usually they are used to identify the user and where he has been and if they have gone somewhere they are not supposed to go. People compare the cookies to “bird band” scientist puts these bracelets or “bird bands” on the birds to track and see where they are going or have been and if any funny activates have been going on with the birds. So people can be seen as the bird in the internet world and are tracked by websites not the government as everyone thought. The most common cookies are used by airlines and buying tickets online. Usually the first time a person visits the airline site they find the cheapest ticket and the second time they go back the ticket goes up in price. This is because of the cookies used by the airline, this is how they make most of their money. People do not know to delete their cookies before they re-visit the page and that will sometimes save them money and help them with their plane …show more content…
Soon after filling one out she started getting letters from an inmate in a state penitentiary and knew certain detail that really scared her. When she found out who it was she was shocked and sued the company for “Outrageous disregard of public safety and dangerous invasion of privacy.” When all the truth came out, the company was funding a prison and used their workers for answering and taking the questionnaires and reporting them back to headquarters. Beverly Davis won the case and after the trail she was asked if she would ever have done the questionnaire if she knew the prisoner was answering the phone. She said no and would have never thought about doing so if she had known the truth behind it. Cases like this happen all the time in the United States, in fact, it is almost all the time. It’s a little scary to think that prisoners are taking phone calls for these companies and especially when it is a questionnaire involving a person’s address and other important items in a person’s