Currently legal for employers to monitor electronic mail; survey reported 75% do so using snoopware Snoopware records virtually everything you do on your computer Most online services reserve the right to censor content; libel, obscenity, or offensive material Can terminate your account for unacceptable “behavior” towards company
Illusion of anonymity is that if you are on the Internet and selective about disclosing names or other personal information that no one knows who you are or how to “find” you - false Recent cases of people tracing other people through Internet activity When you browse the Web your activity is monitored; when you visit a Web site your browser stores critical information onto your hard disk – usually without your permission or knowledge; a history file includes the locations of sites visited by your computer system Traditional cookies – monitor your activities at a single site Ad network cookies – monitors your activities across all sites visited; once deposited onto a hard drive, they continue to actively collect information on Web activities; form of spyware Most browsers can control many types of cookies called cookie-cutter programs – which allow users to selectively filter or block the most intrusive cookies while allowing selective traditional cookies to operate Spyware – wide range of programs that are designed to secretly record and report an individual’s activities on the Internet; in addition to Internet Ad cookies, there are also Web bugs – small programs typically hidden within the HTML code for a Web page or e-mail message and can be used to secretly read e-mail message or work with cookies to collect and report information back to a predefined server on the Web Computer monitoring software – invasive and dangerous type of spyware; programs record every activity and keystroke made on a computer system including credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and e-mail messages Sniffer programs and keystroke loggers – can be deposited on a hard drive without detection from the Web or by someone installing programs directly onto a computer New category of programs known as spry removal programs – designed to detect Web bugs and monitoring software The next slide provides a look at the major privacy laws; and the slide following the privacy laws displays a chart with the Principles of the Code of Fair Information Practice
Illusion of anonymity is that if you are on the Internet and selective about disclosing names or other personal information that no one knows who you are or how to “find” you - false Recent cases of people tracing other people through Internet activity When you browse the Web your activity is monitored; when you visit a Web site your browser stores critical information onto your hard disk – usually without your permission or knowledge; a history file includes the locations of sites visited by your computer system Traditional cookies – monitor your activities at a single site Ad network cookies – monitors your activities across all sites visited; once deposited onto a hard drive, they continue to actively collect information on Web activities; form of spyware Most browsers can control many types of cookies called cookie-cutter programs – which allow users to selectively filter or block the most intrusive cookies while allowing selective traditional cookies to operate Spyware – wide range of programs that are designed to secretly record and report an individual’s activities on the Internet; in addition to Internet Ad cookies, there are also Web bugs – small programs typically hidden within the HTML code for a Web page or e-mail message and can be used to secretly read e-mail message or work with cookies to collect and report information back to a predefined server on the Web Computer monitoring software – invasive and dangerous type of spyware; programs record every activity and keystroke made on a computer system including credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and e-mail messages Sniffer programs and keystroke loggers – can be deposited on a hard drive without detection from the Web or by someone installing programs directly onto a computer New category of programs known as spry removal programs – designed to detect Web bugs and monitoring software The next slide provides a look at the major privacy laws; and the slide following the privacy laws displays a chart with the Principles of the Code of Fair Information Practice
