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Why is the US introducing a bill to limit tracking? Explain problems with implementing a no-tracking law. may 17 jen

Why is the US introducing a bill to limit tracking? The US is introducing a bill to limit tracking because practically every website you visit keep track of at least some activity for some conventional purposes, while some aren't (such as preventing you to vote twice in a poll). With this bill, the users will be able to have the Do Not Track option while visiting the website. Explain problem with implementing a no-tracking law. The problem with implementing a no-tracking law is that once the law is passed, users will still have a hard time of knowing whether or not a site is tracking them. Not all sites will honor the no-tracking law, and because they don't honor it, they probably won't tell their users' that they're still being tracked, along with what information is being gathered for what purpose.

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1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business, Home and leisure, 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. The main stakeholders of the Internet users and the internet advertisement provider (such as Google) 3. Identify and describe one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. A social/ ethical concern in this article is privacy. This article refer to advertisement stalking you around and show up in every site that you are in. The concern is privacy because of the tracking of ads on the users. The IT systems uses cookie to track the user. For example if a user open a commercial website such as ebay and amazon the clicking into a certain product will place a cookie onto your web browser. The next time the user open the web browser, the ads will track you around. The companies that it target marketing which shows users the product that they are interest in at the right time. However is it ok for this ads to track the users around? 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. Web browser: a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. Cookie: Computing a packet of data sent by an Internet server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, used to identify the user or track their access to the server. 5.Describe the solution stated in the article or find a solution to the concern (issue) discussed in the article. One solution that can help solve this problem is to install an adsblocker. Advertisement blockers will block the advertisement from showing on the web browsers. However the cookie is still in your computer. Some web browsers or operating system allow the user to delete the cookie on your computer.

How does apple propose to solve the tracking program? Describe two examples of data tracking services that people use. Do you think privacy is still an issue with phones and apps? May 17 cream

1. How does apple propose to solve the tracking program? Apple released newly developed software that cuts the amount of stored data to just a week and no longer transfer it to the owner's computer when the phone is connected. And if users disable the location services setting on their iPhone or iPad, it will stop collecting data completely. 2. Describe two examples of data tracking services that people use. - Foursquare: Foursquare is a location-based social networking website based on software for mobile devices. - Mobile Me: Mobile Me automatically pushes new email, contacts, and calendar events to your iPhone, Mac, and PC. So your devices always stay in perfect sync. 3. Do you think privacy is still an issue with phones and apps? Of course yes because mobile devices are connected to networks for all the time in order to access to files and media. Privacy is always going to be an issue with phones and apps because even though Apple is storing data for shorter time, the stored data can be used or leaked anytime when threats attack.

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Describe one ITGS social/ethical concern. Describe one way of tracking by looking at the suggested videos on the right-hand side of the youtube page. test nov 28

Why are iphones tracking people? april 28' cream

Why are iphones tracking people? This is the issue of storing user's location data in unencrypted file. The file, named "consolidated.db," is an unencrypted SQLite database that can be found in the devices' file systems and in the iOS backup files created and updated by iTunes every time an iPhone or 3G iPad is synced. Since, we know that Apple is actually collecting location and some information on iphone that's why iphone is not safe at all. Although the file isn't immediately accessible on the device itself, it can be accessed on a jailbroken device via the iTunes-generated backup file. It also could potentially be accessed using other tools that allow you to explore an iOS device's file system while it's attached to a computer.

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This article starts with issue of one woman losing her iPhone, which was stolen by someone who lives 20 km away from her. Since there is a app called Track my iPhone, she used this app to go after the thieve and asked for her iPhone back. Not only her who had been finding the thief herself but lots of people are doing it to avoid conflict with the police. This is causing a concern with the police officer because of the increase in phone robbery in many places and if these are gang member, it can cause life to be lost. Even though the police had devoted more resources to combat the theft, but accessibility of police is quite low. Therefore, people usually like to take action alone neglecting the danger that they might find. Therefore, police came up with further and better solution called 'kill switch'. Which automatically make your phone unavailable and unattractive to the thieves.

What is Kill switch? How is it beneficial to protect your personal information on your phone?

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1. Adjust social-network privacy settings, You should adjust privacy setting in Facebook by changing the privacy option in Facebook. Facebook updated its privacy dashboard in October, which now, it can change the privacy setting in mobile phone, and you don't have to do it in computer. You can also protect twitter to not let show in the public. 2. Ensure personal data is sent over a secure connection, You should find if the site is secured enough before giving a credit card number. Make sure the adress shows that the site is encrypted. 3. Consider opting out of ad tracking, You should get rid of ad tracking by disabling the third party cookies. Now, no one will be able to track your pc. 4. Use private Web browsing features or install a VPN Install VPN for more strong security for your browser. Such as Little Snich, which gives out a warning sign every time the website automatically changes your settings. 5. Think before you post. You should always check and think if the site is secured enough to give out a privacy information or post email. You have to be careful to not let hackers get into your computer. And don't give out privacy information even to friends.

Why were the customers spooked? Why is this a problem? Describe consolidated.db. Check this link: tracking and recording your location data. How is apple collecting geodata? Why is apple collecting geodata? Explain the problems with collecting geodata. Could law enforcement in America be able to subpoena these types of records from people's iPhones or iPads? april 26 cream

How can iphone be hijacked? The experts say that what you would know when your iphone is being hijacked is when one giveaway is if you receive a text message containing a single square character. If that happens, he suggests you immediately turn off your iPhone. How can a user tell if she is being SMS attacked? The researchers said the hack involves sending a series of mostly invisible SMS bursts that effectively hijack an iPhone. From thereon, a hacker could control all the functions on the iPhone, such as e-mailing, dialing contacts - and, most alarmingly, sending more text messages to hijack even more iPhones. Just turn off your iphone right away!

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SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan Marquis-Boire works as a Google engineer and Bill Marczak is earning a Ph.D. in computer science. But this summer, the two men have been moonlighting as detectives, chasing an elusive surveillance tool from Bahrain across five continents.

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How will Google's privacy changes affect users? Explain the reasons for making the changes. Is there a way to prevent Google from combining the personal data it collects from all its services? Explain the users major complaint about Google's new privacy policy? How could the government regulate google's privacy changes?  all March 6 chut

How will Google's privacy changes affect users? - When you are logged into Google, the data that you search into its search engine can be culled to suggest videos for you on YouTube. If you use Google Docs, Google will alert you if you misspelled your friends' names or co-workers' names. Google will collect information from its devices that you use to empower the company to connect the dots from one service to another. Explain the reasons for making the changes. - Google wants to make use of all of its companies that they own. Plus all the data that they collect from their users worldwide. Google wants to use their services to its full potential. They want to tell their users that they are not drawing the users' profiles for their profit only. Is there a way to prevent Google from combining the personal data it collects from all its services? - No there are no ways to prevent Google from combining the data that Google collects from its services. Unless you are not logged on to one of Google's products. Even if you are not logged onto one of Google's services Google can still keep track of you by your IP address instead of your name. if you are logged on and you do not wish to be tracked you can delete your browsing history. Explain the users' major complaint about Google's new privacy policy legal? - The users are not allowed to consent to or reject this new privacy policy. Each users have different setting for their privacy so this new change will not allow the users to use different set of rules. How could the government regulate Google's privacy changes? - The government is carefully looking over Google when it comes to handling personal information of the people. Google settled this argument with the governemtn when Google made a mistake by exposing their client's email accounts. Google's handling over personal information will be audited every other year and they are not allowed to make changes that are misleading or deceptive.

Why are copyright violations a serious problem? Describe two advantages and two issues with illegitimate downloading. Explain two possible solutions to this kind of piracy. all feb 13 chut

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Why are copyright violations are a serious problem? Major entertainment companies are losing millions and billions or money due to these copyright violations. More people are turning to online pirated goods instead of buying legitimately. These companies who are losing their profits are not happy about this problem. Describe two advantages and two issues with illegitimate downloading. One advantage is that pirated download saves you a lot of money. You wouldn't have to spend any money downloading these stuffs. Another advantage is that you can mass download it or download just some parts of it. For example if I wanted to listen to only one song of an album I can just download it off the internet for free, I wouldn't have to buy the real Cd which costs quite a lot of money and listen to only one song. Most artists today sell their Cd's for a high price but the qualities of their songs are not so high plus one Cd usually contains only 5 to 8 tracks. Comparing with the old times, one Cd contains about 15 to 20 tracks and it would still cost less and the songs do have good quality. An issue to this is that it is illegal. Downloading pirated goods are not so different from shoplifting or stealing. These goods have owners which the owners are willing to sell them but we who download them illegally are just taking them for granted. Another issue is that if this continues then the companies will not make as much many as before. This of course would affect the artists, celebrities, directors etc., directly. It can cause problems with jobs. If those people do not make money, then there would be no jobs. There are many jobs in the entertainment business which can be destroyed by this issue. Explain two possible solutions to this kind of piracy. One possible solution is to make it legal to download pirated goods. It may be the best solution possible at this moment. Many people are agreeing that it should be legal when it comes to downloading pirated goods. The enterta

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Describe IT. Alex Oct 4

Bluetooth Low Energy: Allows connected devices to communicate with each other while keeping the energy consumption of the devices at a very low level. The transaction should take place without GPS, other apps running, or even without a phone signal. PayPal Beacon: A small hardware device that runs on its own Wi-Fi, plugs into an outlet and serves as a beacon to other devices. It updates itself and the storekeeper doesn't have to touch it at all. It will track your location according to privacy issues. It is completely up to you whether you accept or decline Beacon when you enter the store. A hands free check in payment device.

1. The area of impact that the scenario relates to the Prgivacies that people can visit to the other people's profiles and view histories to find what the other person done in the past. 2. This is related to the Databases where Google stores the information on profile and history that what they had done. It is also related to surveillance 3. There is the problem with the privacy and anonymity that people can have access to the other persons profile to see their actions in the past. Most companies do this in career test for finding some inappropriate action that the person has done. 4.The database is a collection of information stored in an organized form in a computer. Program helps keep track of corporate passengers 5. For sollution, it might be helpfult to use proxy to get away from google tracking accounts.

How could this help you? march 17 jenny

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How would this help you? These tools could help us by providing us with at least some more sense of security that what we barely have left now. Because we are often on the Internet, we are exposed to the danger of being seen and tracked by others. These tools help us stay invisible and informed. The use of encryption is used as well as proxies to hide user IP addresses. The free tools are basically for us to be aware of what is being tracked of our online activity, and how we can prevent it with the software.

High cholesterol milk Feb 8 Who is Julian? What is wikileaks? Describe cyber attacks. How did politics impact wikileaks? How did wikileaks fight back?

 Who is Julian? - Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher, journalist, software developer and internet activist. He is the founder, spokesperson, and editor in chief of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website and conduit for worldwide news leaks, with the stated purpose of creating open government.  What is WikiLeaks? - WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organization that publishes submission of private, secret and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks.  Describe cyber attacks - A cyber attack is an attempt to undermine or compromise the function of a computer based system or attempt to track the online movements of individuals without their permission. Attacks of this type may be undetectable to the end user or network administrator, or lead to such a total disruption of the network that none of the users can perform even the most rudimentary of tasks.  How did politics impact WikiLeaks? - Protect citizens from knowing the secrets about politics - They keep find track on information -  How did WikiLeaks fight back? - Protesting way back Julian being treated (Letting attacks to each other)

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What evidence does Google present for Chinese government censorship? How does this impact the Jasmine revolution? Describe LinkedIn. Why was LinkedIn disrupted? What are the 7 International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles? Explain the major criticism of this system (International...)? Explain "self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal requirement". Explain "China's political elite have a love hate relationship with the internet". march 25 woo

1. What evidence does Google present for Chinese government censorship? Google says that Chinese customers and advertisers have increasingly been complaining about their Gmail service in the past month. Attempts by users to send messages, mark messages as unread and use other services have generated problems for Gmail customers. Google shows potential signs that the Chinese government is increasing their censorship by revealing that Gmail's e-mailing system features have been disrupted for Gmail users as well as other Gmail interfaces such as sending e-mails. Google also reveals that the users who filed in these complaints are mostly potential threats to the Chinese government such as the activist accounts also with financial, technology, media and chemical companies users' accounts. Thus, even though there is no concrete evidence, there are signs that are most likely to be linked to the Chinese government. 2. How does this impact the Jasmine revolution? The move follows extensive attempts by the Chinese authorities to crack down on the Jasmine revolution, an online dissident movement inspired by events in the Middle East. The censorship was supposed to prevent people from getting too much information but instead, this can provoke people to go against the government since people are aware that they have been treated unfairly. 3. Describe LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site. LinkedIn operates the world's largest professional network on the Internet with more than 100 million members in over 200 countries and territories. The purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone to become a connection. 4. Why was LinkedIn disrupted? LinkedIn is business-social networking and Chinese can use this site as the means of evoking opposition against the government. China's president Hu Jint