Privacy

With New Media there are so many new privacy issues. Hackers are a big concern with new medias such a social networking sites and email. Hackers can use coding to get on to your email or social networking sites. You should also be aware of data scrapping, that is when a company tracks a persons online activities and shares this information with other companies. With data scrapping research companies are able to take personal data and conversations from social networking sits and other online forums. This is all done without the written consent of the person this is happening to. this is a privacy concern for me. Cookies are a way for a company to keep advertising tailored to you,  cookies are not very harmful, but they do follow your browsing habits. taking the time to delete your cookies from your web browsers helps keep your computer safe.




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  1. MarieJuly 9, 2017 at 10:04 AM

    You have given some good tips for protecting one's privacy, for example deleting cookies from the web browsers. A company like Amazon makes it easy and convenient for their customers to use their 1 -click check-out functionality which rely on the information stored by cookies.
    Sometimes we need to sacrifice the extra time and go the extra step to protect our privacy.

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  2. UnknownJuly 9, 2017 at 7:15 PM

    Very interesting, didn’t know really know about data scrapping. With that said it does sound very similar to cookies, but like you said they are not harmful. I think as our society grows with technology there has to be more of a focus on cyber security since it seems that this will be a major security for citizens around the world.

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  3. Skarlett RodriguezJuly 10, 2017 at 8:29 PM



    I agree with the others who knew there was so much more to so much information . That why most of us are not aware about our privacy.

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