-The Wall Street Journal, August 18, 2011 by Julia Angwin
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903480904576508382675931492.html
Major websites such as MSN.com and Hulu.com have been tracking people’s online activities using powerful new methods that are almost impossible for computer users to detect, new research shows.… Separately last month, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, led by law professor Chris Hoofnagle, found supercookie techniques used by dozens of sites.
-San Francisco Chronicle, August 21, 2011 by James Temple
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-08-21/business/29911051_1_cookies-online-privacy-online-marketers
Our study also found over 600 third-party hosts of cookies, most of which are not members of any self-regulatory organization (and thus aren’t bound to the rules of opt-out programs). They’re not even necessarily advertisers, they could be governments. We really don’t know who they are.