I checked the cookies on my web browser Firefox and found that one cookie of local.live.com has the following attributes.
Name: SerializationVersion
Content: 2
Host: local.live.com
Path: /
Send for: Any type of connection
Expires: Thursday, February 15, 4001 11:59:00 PM
Can we imagine what the world will be in year 4001?
I checked cookies of many websites and found it is common that the expiration date of cookies are set far beyond the death of my laptop, year 2011 of mail.google.com, year 2016 of microsoft.com, year 2036 of amazon.com, year 2037 of yahoo.com….
Here is some information about the Internet cookie http://webmaster.info.aol.com/aboutcookies.html.
We need to seriously think about the privacy and security of Internet browsing behavior now. Same for Internet search activities. We need to care the user privacy for personalized search too.
