You you start to order that holiday, and part way through completing the online form, your partner finds a better deal on their phone – so you stop and close that web page and go to the next one. I am sure that every reasonable thinking person (that will be all of my readers) would think that the information on those quit forms would disappear into the ether, as you did not click “SUBMIT”.
Well research shows this is not so. Many of the most popular sites across the world collect and process information collected on the fly as you type – whether press “SUBMIT” or not.
Many of these sites are using keylogging software – this is usually listed under malware by anti-virus software packages.
Hopefully your website is not doing this – because someone in marketing thought it was a good idea.
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
Further Reading
Some top 100,000 websites collect everything you type—before you hit submit | Ars Technica
