Friday, April 21, 2017

Internet Privacy


It is a subset of data privacy. Privacy concerns have been articulated from the beginnings of large scale computer sharing. Include the right of personal privacy concerning the storing, repurposing, provision to third parties, and displaying of information pertaining to oneself via of the Internet and personally identifying information (PII) or non-PII information such as a site visitor's behavior on a website. For example, age and physical address alone could identify who an individual is without explicitly disclosing their name, as these two factors are unique enough to typically identify a specific person.


Levels of Internet privacy:

  1. Internet privacy is primarily of concerned with protecting user information.
  2. Internet and companies would need to abide by new rules to protect individual's privacy.
  3. The internet and mobile networks are a dailying concern for users.
  4. Internet users may protect their privacy through controlled disclosure of personal information.
  5. The revelation of IP addresses, non-personally-identifiable profiling, and similar information might become acceptable trade-offs for the convenience that users could otherwise lose using the workarounds needed to suppress such details rigorously.
  6. Use of the Internet without giving any third parties the ability to link the Internet activities to personally-identifiable information of the Internet user.
  7. In order to keep their information private, people need to be careful with what they submit to and look at online.
  8. When filling out forms and buying merchandise, that becomes tracked and because the information was not private, some companies are now sending Internet users spam and advertising on similar products.
  9. Posting things on the Internet can be harmful or in danger of malicious attack.
  10. Some information posted on the Internet is permanent, depending on the terms of service, and privacy policies of particular services offered online.
  11. This can include comments written on blogs, pictures, and Internet sites, such as Facebook and Twitter.



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