INTERNET PRIVACY A DETAILED RESEARCH PAPER ABOUT INTERNET SECURITY AND ITS LOOP HOLES...A COMPUTER SCEINECE ENGINEERING COURSE ESSAY WITH WORK CITED PAGES.

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Internet privacy

The concise oxford dictionary defines privacy as being withdrawn from society or public interest. Privacy is the claim of individuals, groups or institutions to determine for themselves when and to what extent information is communicated to others. In the past two years, the world of communications has experienced a revolution as computers across the world have learned to speak with one another.

The impact of personal privacy is enormous. Data types of different kinds are selling or giving away collections of personal data. The personal information consists from an individual's SSN to his likes and dislikes in his life. So by knowing this information, these companies target the individuals according to their tastes. This leads to junk mails about the products. Federal trade commission had recently given a survey report to the congress that around 80 percent of the websites take personal information and only 2 percent of them disclose a complete privacy policy.

There are some websites and databases which sell the personal information to insurance companies, banks, etc. some of these websites are criminalbackground.com, publicdata.com, check-a-data.com, etc.

Privacy in everyday life is nothing new. When you buy something at the grocery store, no one is going to ask you for some form of ID, and when you send a snail mail letter, the post Office doesn't check if the return address is valid. However, on the Internet, privacy is regarded a lot less normal. Messages are sent as clear text, so that everyone with a little knowledge can read them, and there is no built in way to prevent someone else from

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forging something in your name, because there is no way you can prove it wasn't you.

Private institutions do the surveillance of individuals these days and most of the surveillance is now via...