NSA Tapping into Your Internet ‘Cookies’ Too?
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Jacob Wackerhausen/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Apparently, advertisers aren’t the only ones using web “cookies” to track Internet users’ online habits. New documents provided to the Washington Post say the National Security Agency secretly uses that same technology for spying.
Internet “cookies” help advertisers keep track of where you go online — and then target you with ads they think will catch your attention. Now, the Post reports the NSA — and British spies — are piggybacking on that technology to target users the government might want to hack.
These cookies — in particularly the Google cookie called “PREF” — let the spies hone in on someone already under suspicion, according to documents handed over by NSA leaker Edward Snowden. It’s a revelation that could raise even more privacy concerns about an already controversial technology.
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