Case 2 Jessica Does a Lot of Shopping Online and Has

Multiple Choice

Case 2 Jessica does a lot of shopping online and has used an online shopping cart many times. Her major questions are is it safe to shop online, and how does e-commerce affect privacy by gathering information? She is justifiably worried about personal information and credit card numbers supplied in the course of an e-commerce transaction. Merchants who market goods and services are eager to get the attention of prospective customers, but they sometimes secretly gather information and also relay it to advertisers or other interested parties. Most shopping carts work because they use ____ to store information about your activities on a Web site.

A) certificate authorities
B) cookies
C) digital certificates
D) Web servers