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Analysis and compliance evaluation of cookies-setting websites with privacy protection laws

The use of cookies to profile individuals has been raising serious privacy protection concerns. Many countries have already enacted privacy protection laws to create legal framework to mitigate these concerns. This paper presents an analysis of setting of cookies on users' computers by websites in a sample of Commonwealth countries, and evaluates compliance of the cookies-setting websites with privacy protection laws of the countries where the websites are hosted. Also, the rate at which third-party cookies are being set was monitored and the findings were used to estimate probability of a user's Internet activities being tracked on the websites in the Commonwealth countries.