How could cookies created by aWeb server affect a computer u

How could “cookies” created by aWeb server affect a computer user’s privacy.Give three examples of how data mining is being used on information collected from social networks.

Solution

As cookies are basically(files) which stores the information entered by you, websites used or we can say cookies are simple text files that helps coordinate between remote server and your local computer to provide full range of feature provided by most of sites based on your search criteria which is basically done by keeping track of browing history.

Cookies could some time affect your privacy in ways like cookies itself cannot dig on any information but it keeps the data etered by you like any form , personal information on site entered by you for lets say two day (until you explicitily delete it). Hence there are chances that whenever going through ecommerce which is widely used user information may get leaked or atleast shared accross. One mor concern point if flash cookies, these are not saved on your local computer so this created a concern in user\'s mind as its not saved on your local computer and out of your control so chances are there unknowingly you are giving access of your data to some other party.