Google's cookies "fairly standard"
30/04/2008 19:10:13
Google's use of cookies is not a major IT security issue, according to an industry commentator.
Cookies are small packages of data that can be downloaded by a website onto a computer's system.
Ben Camm-Jones, news editor for Web-User magazine, has said that use of this kind of technology is fairly standard.
"The controversy which has been surrounding this issue in recent years has been [regarding] the length of time that the data is kept for. The major concern is that [Google's] cookies are kept for too long," he continued.
Mr Camm-Jones went on to say that other products are of far greater concern, such as advertising systems like Phorm, and the way that they use surfer's data.
"You don't want to be completely ignorant about the tools you're using," he cautioned.
"It's good to learn a bit about the ways that companies use data."
This news follows reports in Macworld that a security flaw has been found in PCs using Windows Vista that have been upgraded to Service Pack 1.
