New Web Code Draws Concern Over Risks to Privacy

Samy Kamkar

Click on this link to read a Sarasota Herald-Tribune article about privacy concerns connected with the new browser language, HTML 5.  The article discusses an individual, Samy Kamkar, who has used the new language to create a type of cookie that is almost unremovable due to its storing information about web-surfers in a variety of locations.  There are concerns that the new language will enable marketers and others to compile extensive information about all of us.