Microsoft Removes Super Cookie Code

You think your privacy is safe when you remove your cookies? Think again.

Microsoft has only recently deleted some code on its MSN-website that secretly could log visitors' browsing histories across multiple web properties, even when the users deleted browser cookies to elude tracking.

So-called 'supercookies' are even capable of re-creating cookies or other identifiers after people deleted regular cookies. Microsoft was identified as one among others that had this code. Aware of its public image Microsoft promtly removed these lines of code, saying that it was occurring under certain circumstances as a result of older code that was used only on our own sites, and was already scheduled to be discontinued.

See Microsoft's press-release here.

As one poster replied: To sum up this post: We're sorry we got caught. Won't happen again...until we get caught again.