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  Using Internet as a Research Tool

Topic 3 Ethics and Internet

Impact    Copyright    Privacy    Security  Etiquette  Human Behaviors

Privacy Issues

  • Privacy as an individual

  • Signing up and registering with Internet services
    • Reveal personal information e.g. name, e-mail address, mailing address, age, income, etc.

  • Consider
    • Is it worth the cost of giving information? What will be done to the information?
    • Who owns your e-mail account? Internet services of computer network provided by employer

  • Disclosing of personal information over e-mails, chatrooms, discussion forums and forms
    • Caches/Temporary Internet files, History List, Cookies

  • Using encryption
    • Your message becomes an unreadable form
    • Can only be read if the code is known

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