WEB surfers with any desire for privacy loathe cookies: the tiny data ID tags that websites continually download onto your hard drive. Now an alternative system is being developed to give users more control over any personal information generated as they browse.
Website owners argue that cookies give their sites “memory”, allowing them to distinguish one user from another. They allow the site to remember a person’s shopping preferences or deliver tailored news content. Many users are content with this, but others object to corporations profiling their every click.
The new system, developed by Lykourgos Petropoulakis of the University of…
