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Richard Wilson
Web cookies (also called HTTP cookies, browser cookies, or simply cookies) are small pieces of data that websites store on your device (computer, phone, etc.) through your web browser. They are used to remember information about you and your interactions with the site.
Session Management:
Keeping you logged in
Remembering items in a shopping cart
Saving language or theme preferences
Personalization:
Tailoring content or ads based on your previous activity
Tracking & Analytics:
Monitoring browsing behavior for analytics or marketing purposes
Session Cookies:
Temporary; deleted when you close your browser
Used for things like keeping you logged in during a single session
Persistent Cookies:
Stored on your device until they expire or are manually deleted
Used for remembering login credentials, settings, etc.
First-Party Cookies:
Set by the website you're visiting directly
Third-Party Cookies:
Set by other domains (usually advertisers) embedded in the website
Commonly used for tracking across multiple sites
Authentication cookies are a special type of web cookie used to identify and verify a user after they log in to a website or web application.
Once you log in to a site, the server creates an authentication cookie and sends it to your browser. This cookie:
Proves to the website that you're logged in
Prevents you from having to log in again on every page you visit
Can persist across sessions if you select "Remember me"
Typically, it contains:
A unique session ID (not your actual password)
Optional metadata (e.g., expiration time, security flags)
Analytics cookies are cookies used to collect data about how visitors interact with a website. Their primary purpose is to help website owners understand and improve user experience by analyzing things like:
How users navigate the site
Which pages are most/least visited
How long users stay on each page
What device, browser, or location the user is from
Some examples of data analytics cookies may collect:
Page views and time spent on pages
Click paths (how users move from page to page)
Bounce rate (users who leave without interacting)
User demographics (location, language, device)
Referring websites (how users arrived at the site)
Here’s how you can disable cookies in common browsers:
Open Chrome and click the three vertical dots in the top-right corner.
Go to Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data.
Choose your preferred option:
Block all cookies (not recommended, can break most websites).
Block third-party cookies (can block ads and tracking cookies).
Open Firefox and click the three horizontal lines in the top-right corner.
Go to Settings > Privacy & Security.
Under the Enhanced Tracking Protection section, choose Strict to block most cookies or Custom to manually choose which cookies to block.
Open Safari and click Safari in the top-left corner of the screen.
Go to Preferences > Privacy.
Check Block all cookies to stop all cookies, or select options to block third-party cookies.
Open Edge and click the three horizontal dots in the top-right corner.
Go to Settings > Privacy, search, and services > Cookies and site permissions.
Select your cookie settings from there, including blocking all cookies or blocking third-party cookies.
For Safari on iOS: Go to Settings > Safari > Privacy & Security > Block All Cookies.
For Chrome on Android: Open the app, tap the three dots, go to Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies.
Disabling cookies can make your online experience more difficult. Some websites may not load properly, or you may be logged out frequently. Also, certain features may not work as expected.
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Jesus “Jay” Malave ’03 joins Boeing as new Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President. Malave has been in aerospace and manufacturing finance for over 25 years, most recently as the CFO of Lockheed Martin.
Amy Saji ’21 joined Seaton Hall Law School as an Associate Professor of Law & Inaugural Clinical Director of the Medical Legal Partnership Clinic. Saji participated in an accelerated program at UConn earning her B.A. in political science and her J.D. from UConn School of Law in only six years. While at UConn Law she was the Assistant Managing Editor of the Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal.
Anne F. Mahoney ’87 is retiring from the Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice where she has worked for more than 30 years. Following her retirement, she will be teaching a class at Central Connecticut State University this upcoming fall.
Emily Gianquinto ’06 is the incoming Connecticut Bar Association (CBA) president. She begins her one-year term in July, and has served as the CBA’s vice president from 2023 to 2024. Gianquinto’s has been working at McCarter & English Since 2018.
Richard Pomp publishes The Case Against Excluding Gross Receipts from the Sales Factor, 42 J. STATE TAX’N 29 (2024)
The University of Connecticut School of Law will hold its 102nd commencement on May 18, 2025. The procession will begin at 10 a.m and the ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. We are expecting to celebrate nearly 200 graduates earning JDs, LLM, and SJDs. The commencement speaker will be Arunan Arulampalam, Mayor of the City of Hartford.
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This roundtable discussion, part of the In Conversation series, will consider the present and future role of the states in developing and maintaining democratic values and institutions.
Jesus “Jay” Malave ’03 joins Boeing as new Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President. Malave has been in aerospace and manufacturing finance for over 25 years, most recently as the CFO of Lockheed Martin.
Amy Saji ’21 joined Seaton Hall Law School as an Associate Professor of Law & Inaugural Clinical Director of the Medical Legal Partnership Clinic. Saji participated in an accelerated program at UConn earning her B.A. in political science and her J.D. from UConn School of Law in only six years. While at UConn Law she was the Assistant Managing Editor of the Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal.
Anne F. Mahoney ’87 is retiring from the Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice where she has worked for more than 30 years. Following her retirement, she will be teaching a class at Central Connecticut State University this upcoming fall.
Emily Gianquinto ’06 is the incoming Connecticut Bar Association (CBA) president. She begins her one-year term in July, and has served as the CBA’s vice president from 2023 to 2024. Gianquinto’s has been working at McCarter & English Since 2018.
Richard Wilson publishes Contesting Histories: The Historical Accounts of Transitional Justice Institutions, in The Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice (Alex Hinton, Lawrence Douglas & Jens Meierhenrich eds., 2024) (with Vladimir Petrović)
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