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Tuesday, August 14, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/14/technology/ebusiness/14WEB.html 'Web Bugs' Are Tracking Use of Internet By JOHN SCHWARTZ Many people who have personal Web pages are unknowingly tracking people who visit and sending the information to third parties, according to a new report. The report — which will be released today by Cyveillance, which tracks Internet sites for corporate clients — says that the use of an Internet monitoring technology popularly known as "Web bugs" has exploded on personal Web pages — especially those created free through online companies like America Online and Geocities, a company owned by Yahoo (news/quote). The monitoring technology, which can be used to gather information on visitors to a Web site, is invisibly added to the Web pages as part of elements that the sites offer to help create the Web page....
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