1. Unit 27 Web Server Scripting Extended Diploma in ICT
Ethical issues
Unit 27 Web Server Scripting
Extended Diploma in ICT

2. Criteria P6 P6 explain the issues surrounding web server scripting
We will look at ethical issues
Ethics – concerned with right and wrong behaviour
What can you do with web server scripting that could be classed as unethical?

3. Cookies
 a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser
the same website can retrieve the data stored in the cookie
Cookie data can be used for
Session data
Tracking visits to the web site
Recording browsing history

4. Third party cookies
Third party cookies are those set by other web sites appearing on the selected web site, such as adverts
Advertising companies use third-party cookies to track a user across multiple sites and build a picture of their browsing history
This allows the advertising company to target advertisements
These cookies raise concerns about privacy

5. EU directive
the consumer must give his or her consent before cookies or any other form of data is stored in their browser

6. Local data storage Web applications can store data locally using HTML5
This could be useful content needed to let the application run efficiently and offline.
It could also be bad content used to track users without their knowledge or consent.
For instance, local storage could be used to back up cookies so that the data is not cleared if the cookies are cleared

7. Fake web statistics
Advertising revenue for a web page is determined by the number of “page views”
These are counted by small bits of javascript
You can add additional code to execute the javascript multiple times
Auto refresh programs can refresh a web site thousands of times in a day
They can use proxy servers to hide their IP address