Privacy and the Internet

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Privacy and the Internet

• By,
• Rachel Hoeschen

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Table of Contents

• The Threats
• Cookies
• Web bugs
• Browsers
• Spy ware
• Phishing
• Your info
• Spam

• What can you do about it?

• Sources

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Threats to Your Privacy The Biggies..
Cookies
Web Bugs
Browsers
Spy ware
Phishing
Your Information
Spam
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Cookies or HTTP CookiesFar from the cookie
monsters favorite treat

• Data that is inserted on your hard drive that
  stores information about previously visited web
  sites
• they tailor web sites based on your interests
• . Most are used only by the web site that put the
  cookie in place but.
• The elusive
• Third-Party Cookies, gather information about
  you and then sells that data to other marketers
• Cookies in the News

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Web bugs Creepy Crawlers that gather your
information

• These allow third parties to see who is looking
  at a web page of message.
• They can be used to confirm that a message or web
  page is being viewed and then record the IP
  address of the viewer.
• Exterminate them by
• by reading your email while offline
• installing a software program that detects web
  bugs.                      

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Browsersbrowsing through your personal
information as you read

• They invisibly provide web site operators with
  information about your ISP and past web sites you
  have visited
• Some web browsers, may also be tricked into
  reporting the user's default e-mail address,
  phone number, and other information found in your
  address book
• The major browsers affected are Netscape
  Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

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Spy wareNot the James Bond you know and trust

• Malicious software designed to intercept or take
  partial control of a computer's operation without
  the informed
• consent of that machine's owner or legitimate
  user.
• It exploits infected computers for commercial
  gain. Such as pop- ups advertisements theft of
  personal information, monitoring of Web-browsing
  activity for marketing purposes or routing of
  HTTP requests to advertising sites.
• As of 2005, spy ware has become one of the
  pre-eminent security threats to computer-systems
  running Microsoft Windows operating- systems and
  Internet Explorer.

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PhishingFishing for your information

• An email that looks official but is actually
  trying to trick the bank's members into giving
  away their account information by "confirming"
  sensitive information at the phisher's linked
  website.

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Your Famous!But in the John Bobbitt way

• With out your permission anyone can say what they
  want about you on the internet
• Governments, schools, businesses and other
  organizations collect and may publish your
  personal information
• They may also sell this info to businesses
• or individuals
• There is little or no law anywhere in the world
  governing this

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SpamThe other, other, other white meat

• junk e-mail
• public sources (such as web sites online
  purchases and can be harvested for e-mail
  addresses)
• These are then sold to spammers. Or spammers use
  programs to randomly generate e-mail addresses.
• To much spam can compromise and slow down the
  whole network.
• Annoying!
• FYI Spam is now illegal in Australia.

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Feeling taken advantage of yet?What are you
going to do about it?

• 1. Only conduct business, visit sites or become
  involved with web sites that have adequate
  privacy policies that cover at least to whom
  your information will be passed onto, why the
  information is being collected, how the
  information will be used, and how you can access
  information the organization holds about you
• 2. Install and use privacy enhancing software
  including
• Firewall
• Cookie Remover
• Web Bug Remover
• Anonymous Web Browsing
• Encrypted Email
• Advertising Filters
• Anti-Spam Tools
• Anti-Spyware Tools
• Further Information
• 3. Opt out of all further contact with
  organizations
• 4. Only give as much personal information as you
  are comfortable with
• 5. Use an on-line identity and free email service
  to protect against giving out your details to
  spammers

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Dont Forget!

• The workplace

Children
Law Enforcement
What does privacy mean to them?
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Sources

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_privacy
• http//www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs18-cyb.htm
• http//www.privacy.gov.au/internet/internet_privac
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• http//www.privacy.gov.au/internet/tools/index.htm
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• http//www.privacy.org/
• http//www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/
  
• http//www.sonic.net/undoc/extent.htm