Nearly a year after we discussed the privacy implications of Flash cookies, they are in the news again as the US sovereignty considers revising its cookie policy. Wired covers a study out of UC Berkeley exposing questionable even break used by many of the Internet's most-visited Web sites (abstract). The most questionable exercise the report exposes is known as "respawning": after a user has deleted browser astronomical station cookies, some sites will use counsel in Flash cookies to recreate them. The report names two companies, Clearspring and QuantCast, whose technologies reinstate cookies for other Web sites. "Federal websites have traditionally been banned from using visual tracking station cookies, despite being common around the web — a position the Obama direction is proposing to change as part of an attempt to modernize influence websites. But the debate shouldn't be about allowing browser cookies or not, gospel Ashkan Soltani, a UC Berkeley graduate student who helped lead the study. 'If users don't want to be tracked and there is a problem with tracking, then we should regulate tracking, not set cookies,' Soltani said."

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