WWW :Privacy

"We are left with the alarming question as to whether privacy should be put before global safety." wrote Abhilash Sonwane of Cyberoam. Among services paid for by publicity, Yahoo! could collect the most data about profitable Web users, about 2,500 bits of in order per month about each typical user of its site and its allied publicity network sites. Yahoo! was followed by MySpace with about half that budding and then by AOL-TimeWarner, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and eBay. About 27% of websites operate outside .com address.

Standards of WWW

Many formal standards and other technical stipulation define the operation of different aspect of the World Wide Web, the Internet, and computer in sequence exchange. Many of the papers are the work of the World Wide Web Consortium, headed by Berners-Lee, but some are shaped by the Internet Engineering Task Force and other organization.

Usually, when Web standards are discussed, the next publications are seen as opening:

* Recommendations used for markup languages, especially HTML and XHTML, from the W3C. These define the structure and interpretation of hypertext papers.

* Recommendations used for stylesheets, especially CSS, from the W3C.

* Standards for ECMAScript, from Ecma worldwide.

* Recommendations for the text Object Model, from W3C.

Additional publications give definitions of other essential technology for the World Wide Web, including, but not partial to, the next:

* Uniform Resource Identifier, which is a universal system for referencing capital on the Internet, such as hypertext documents and images. URIs, often called URLs, is defined by the IETF's RFC 3986 / STD 66: Uniform Resource Identifier: Generic Syntax, as well as its predecessor and numerous URI scheme-defining RFCs;

* HyperText Transfer Protocol, especially as distinct by RFC 2616: HTTP/1.1 and RFC 2617: HTTP Authentication, which specify how the browser and server validate each other.