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An online clothing boutique decides to install a web or Internet cookie in the browser of each user who visits its site. The purpose of the cookie is to remember information about the user and help monitor-browsing patterns on their site and others. This enables the boutique's website to suggest products to the customer that match their browsing history. This is:

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a practice that may have longer term implications on the ethics of personal privacy

Step-by-step explanation:

Cookies are a tool that is used on websites to identify user browser history.

The information on a user's browsing habits is then used by businesses to tailor display information relevant to what they are usually interested in.

Usually they are a safe way to improve browsing experience, but they can be used by criminals to spy on people and gain unwanted access to their data.

Cookies save information about a user session by storing data like usernames.

There is a long term danger of having one's browsing history tracked without their consent

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