Information Privacy

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Information Privacy
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Information Privacy

• The right to with hold information about yourself

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Ways Your Privacy is Violated

• Electronic Profiles
• Info. put into a database
• Info. gained from magazine subscriptions, on-line
  purchases and other means
• Info. is sold to other companies

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Cookies

• Small text file placed on your computer by a web
  site
• Contains your name and web site settings
• Used by on-line shopping sites and others
• Cookie info. can be sold
• Internet Explorer can block some cookies
• Adwatch by Lavasoft

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Spyware

• Program placed on your computer without
  permission
• Collects info. and sends it to an outside source
• Adware Collects info. For companies about
  visited sites
• Web Bug Program hidden on web pages

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Spam

• Unsolicited e-mail
• Called junk mail
• We get about 1,000 per year
• Anti Spam programs and filters
• Can remove good e-mails

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How to Protect Yourself

• Do not put extra info. on forms
• Look for checkboxes that tell companies not to
  give out your info.
• Install a cookie manager, firewall and use a
  spyware scanner
• Increase your Internet Explorer Security settings
• Use a free e-mail account

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