Privacy

What is Privacy ??

• Claim of individuals to be left alone, • Free from surveillance or interference from other individuals,

organizations, or the state• Ability to control Information about yourself• Privacy is sometimes related to anonymity, the wish to

remain unnoticed or unidentified in the public

How our Personal

Information Gets

Revealed ???

E.g. of Privacy Issues

• Violation of Privacy• Computer Monitoring• Computer Matching• Unauthorized Personal Files

By ISP (Internet Service Provider)• Internet Service Providers (ISP) always know your IP address

and the IP address to which you are communicating• ISPs are capable of observing unencrypted data passing

between you and the Internet, but not properly-encrypted data

• They are usually prevented to do so due to social pressure and law.

Solutions to Protect Privacy Online

• Cookie Control • Encryption Tools• Fire Walls

By Internet Browser

• Most web browsers can save some forms of personal data, such as browsing history, cookies, web form entries and password

• You may accidentally reveal such information when using a browser on a public computer or someone else's.

Protect your

privacyon the Web

When surfing theinternet, avoid “free”

offers and protectyour information!

Chatting – guardyour information

unlessYou are 100%

Sure who you arechatting with.

Cookies aren’t justfor eating, they may

be sending yourpersonal information

to others.

Protect your passwords

like you would yourwallet or car keys.

Make it complicate!

E-mail is notsecure and shouldnever be though

of as private.

Don’t evenopen Spam, download

a spam buster!

Beware of phishing,which are fake e-

mailsSent to try to gainyour personal and

financial information.

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