{"id":10569,"date":"2022-01-28T12:32:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T11:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/web-tracking-cookies-meant-to-protect-privacy-inventor\/"},"modified":"2022-01-28T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T11:32:22","slug":"web-tracking-cookies-meant-to-protect-privacy-inventor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/web-tracking-cookies-meant-to-protect-privacy-inventor\/","title":{"rendered":"Web-Tracking &#8216;Cookies&#8217; Meant to Protect Privacy: Inventor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span><span>The data-tracking &#8220;cookies&#8221; at the heart of concerns over online privacy were meant to shield people, rather than serve as cyber snoops, their inventor told AFP.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span><span>California-based engineer and entrepreneur Lou Montulli said the original &#8220;cookie&#8221; he created decades ago was intended to make life online easier by letting websites remember visitors.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/web-tracking-cookies-meant-protect-privacy-inventor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=Jr8CjXwMso8:jPSAdraaXOI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=Jr8CjXwMso8:jPSAdraaXOI:-BTjWOF_DHI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=Jr8CjXwMso8:jPSAdraaXOI:-BTjWOF_DHI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=Jr8CjXwMso8:jPSAdraaXOI:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=Jr8CjXwMso8:jPSAdraaXOI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=Jr8CjXwMso8:jPSAdraaXOI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=Jr8CjXwMso8:jPSAdraaXOI:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=Jr8CjXwMso8:jPSAdraaXOI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=Jr8CjXwMso8:jPSAdraaXOI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=Jr8CjXwMso8:jPSAdraaXOI:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=Jr8CjXwMso8:jPSAdraaXOI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=Jr8CjXwMso8:jPSAdraaXOI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The data-tracking &#8220;cookies&#8221; at the heart of concerns over online privacy were meant to shield people, rather than serve as cyber snoops, their inventor told AFP. California-based engineer and entrepreneur Lou Montulli said the original &#8220;cookie&#8221; he created decades ago was intended to make life online easier by letting websites remember visitors. read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,11,12,38,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-protection","category-news-industry","category-privacy","category-privacy-compliance","category-tracking-law-enforcement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}