The importance of the internet, and its capability to facilitate information-, and knowledge sharing is ever-increasing. This trend, increases the importance of the foundational technical applications in cyberspace. However, some of the technology applications, like the web cookie, which is a small data file used to cache website attributes, are being used in ways, not intended initially, thus enabling controversy in its use, as it pertains to the tracking of personal information, for example. In this project, we will examine how the web cookie technology is facilitating surveillance capitalis

Her presenteres ideen bag produktet, og en lille video af, det i aktion.

This paper examines the digital data collection with focus on Facebook and Google and the consequences hereby. It tries to analyse the economic consequences but it also focuses on the potentially more diffuse societal consequences of the vast amount of data collected. In regards to these consequences we attempt to map how legislation and the differences in legislation between Europe and the United States affect the potential economical and societal changes in the respective areas of the western world.