From the report: "This
paper discusses the issues concerning cookies and privacy and electronic
commerce. After analysing the European and national legislation about
protection of privacy and distance selling and electronic commerce, the
attention is focused on consumers actual knowledge of cookies. The second part
of the paper is a survey realized in 2010 in two high schools of Modena. The
survey uncovers that the knowledge about cookies and related issues is
superficial. The paper concludes that there are many instruments to protect
consumers' privacy while they are surfing on or buying in the Internet.
However there is the need to improve the effective knowledge of the so-called
cyberconsumers about cookies and issues concerning privacy." Read more
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