COMPUTER DATA THEFT ON A MASSIVE SCALE

You might have noticed that when you are on the Internet your computer suddenly gets slow to do anything and you might hear your disk drive clicking like crazy. There is a good chance that someone or some company or advertiser has grabbed control of your computer and is trying to upload your personal data from your computer. This is called "browser hijacking" where your computer is secretly redirected to a site where your information is being uploaded from your computer. A less intrusive form of this data theft is the adding of so-called "cookies" to your computer that automatically upload data from your computer that is useful to advertisers or marketing companies. This kind of activity is not limited to just individual "hackers", but, I believe is being done by large companies and maybe major Internet businesses, according to my tests and experiments. For example, I have noted that if I remove all "cookies" from my computer that all I have to do is access one major Internet company and I will pick up at least one "cookie". By removing the "cookies" and other personal privacy invasion objects that find their way onto my computer when I use the Internet for my everyday activities, my computer runs faster and does not do strange things like slow-downs and the disk drive working overtime. This massive data theft is presently beyond laws and regulation, but I believe that it is criminal theft since the computer user does not knowingly agree to the covert and secretive intrusions on our private information. Unfortunately, if government regulation is forced by this criminal activity, it will cause some loss of freedom in Internet usage. Is this the price we will have to pay for this massive theft of data? I hope not but at present I don't see any other solution except regulation and prosecutions if necessary.