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"Cookies cannot reliably identify individual users."
a. Cookies assigned by Web servers are prone to duplication.
b. The US government has banned the use of cookies for user identification.
c. The explosion in Internet-enabled mobile devices has resulted in an acute shortage of IP addresses.
d. Internet service providers assign arbitrary IP addresses to devices accessing the Internet from the same network.
e. Individual users use different browsers on the same computer to surf the Web.


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Passive Surveillance

The monitoring of disease or health indicators without active efforts to reach out to individuals or health care providers; relying instead on reports received through routine channels.

Disease X

A placeholder name used by the World Health Organization for a hypothetical, unknown pathogen that could cause a future epidemic.

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