Microsoft stops secretly tracking users' browsing habits
Microsoft has removed code from its MSN web site that tracked its users' browsing habits, even if those users intentionally deleted their cookies in order to preserve their privacy.
Mike Hintze, associate general counsel, regulatory affairs, Microsoft, announced in a blog that the firm investigated the code once it was brought to its attention by a researcher.
"According to researchers, including Jonathan Mayer at Stanford University, 'supercookies' are capable of re-creating users' cookies or other identifiers after people deleted regular cookies. "We determined that the cookie behaviour he observed was occurring under certain circumstances as a result of older code that was used only on our own sites."
