Adobe Flash Player

A lawsuit was filed against Walt Disney's internet subsidiary and several of its partners over allegedly using cookies based on Adobe's Flash Player to track highly personal information about their users, many of whom were children. Locally shared objects (LSOs) are better known as Flash Cookies, and their ability to gather detailed user information over long periods of time without a trace has been understood since at least 2007. The lawsuit claims that the technology was used by websites to track users in ways that violate the sites' privacy policies.