Cookies
Let's not forget about "cookies" while we're on the subject of divulging information. Cookies, in this context, are the files that Web sites can store and access on your hard drive, to keep track of what you've done there before. This can be handy, and in most cases cookies are useful and desirable, but room for abuse exists.
You can tell your browser not to accept any cookies, but it probably isn't practical for most of us to surf that way. Instead we recommend setting the security preferences on your browser to prompt you before accepting any cookies. That way you can decide if it is a site that you want keeping track of your info.
Typically, you'll want to accept cookies from sites where you have set up customised or personalised views or that require logins. Trusted commerce sites that you have done business with in the past are worth saying yes to also, as it will save you time if the site can remember and reuse your billing data.
To access your browser's security settings in Navigator, select Preferences from the Edit pull-down menu and click on the Advanced tab. You'll see choices to disable all cookies, accept all cookies, accept only cookies that go directly back to the requesting server, and prompt before accepting cookies. In Internet Explorer, choose Internet Options from the Tools pull-down menu and then select the Security tab.
Hi,
Great site, very inforrmative. But . . . .
If this is an Australian site, why are all your examples American.
What Australian agencies and credit bureaus should be contacted when id stolen?
Regards,
Ross