The Character of Consent - The History of Cookies and the Future of Technology Policy

The rich, untold origin story of the ubiquitous web cookie--what’s wrong with it, why it’s being retired, and how we can do better. Consent pop-ups continually ask us to download cookies to our computers, but is this all-too-familiar form of privacy protection effective? No, Meg Leta Jones explains in Instead of asking

List of contents

Contents
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: COOKIES AND CONSENTING CHARACTERS 3
CHAPTER 2: COMPUTING THE DATA SUBJECT 18
CHAPTER 3: NETWORKING THE USER 47
CHAPTER 4: MAINTAINING STATE FOR THE PRIVACY CONSUMER 65
CHAPTER 5: CONTESTING COOKIES FOR DATA PRIVACY 88
CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSION: THE (FORCED) RETIREMENT OF COOKIES 105

About the author

Meg Leta Jones is Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor in the Communication, Culture & Technology program at Georgetown University and the author of Ctrl+Z: The Right to Be Forgotten. She is also a core faculty member of the Science, Technology and International Affairs program in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, a faculty affiliate with the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law Center, and a faculty fellow at the Georgetown Ethics Lab.

Product details

• Authors: Meg Leta Jones, Jones Meg Leta
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2024
• EAN: 9780262547949
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54794-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Information Policy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, Technology: general issues, History of engineering and technology, COMPUTERS / Internet / Online Safety & Privacy