by Daniel Emery, BBC News
Zombies always cause trouble, be they computer, network or cookie A legal challenge has been launched in the US against a number of websites amid claims that they were engaged in “covert surveillance” of users. The lawsuit alleges that a number of firms, including Hulu, MTV, and Myspace, used a Quantcast Flash application to restore deleted cookies. Cookies are text files used by web browsers to store user data. The lawsuit says that the application was creating so-called “zombie cookies” from deleted files.
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