Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Lesson 9: Privacy

WHAT IS PRIVACY? 

Data and Information privacy. 

Data: a collection of raw unprocessed facts, figures and symbols. Then, computer is used to process data into information. In general, data include texts, numbers, sounds, images and video.

Rights of individuals and companies to deny or restrict the collection and use of information about them.

Data & Information privacy are threaten through;
1. Electronic Profile
2. Cookies
3. Spyware

Privacy is needed because we don't want any part of our private and valuable information fall to other parties especially bad parties!

7 comments:

  1. Group 2

    Oh, i see.. But what is SPAM ?

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    1. Remember when you open your email and thereare hundreds of similar unknown email. You know what. You have been spammed! So, what you do...? Delete all of them and mark as spam so it wont come again!(Mr Steve)

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  2. Are they any other explanation about COOKIES? Some think is like food and sweet..but it isn't!

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    1. Cookies is something you get from login to website that have database, cookies can be specified diffrent from difrrent users

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    2. Cookies is not a food when it comes to computer cookies . COOKIES is a small text file that contains a unique ID tag, placed on the user's computer by a website. In this file, various information can be stored, from pages visited on the site, to information voluntarily given to the site. These tiny files provide practical benefits to both users and website operators, and generally make surfing the net a smoother experience than it otherwise would be. Nevertheless, privacy advocates tend to be wary of them, since many users are unaware of exactly what information is collected, and how the information may be used or shared.

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    3. Mean to say, every time we online something is tracking our data? like a log?

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    4. yes , i have seen it when using software that can sniff through wifi/lan , there is cookies for each site.

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