CMN 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Everytime, Adware, Social Security Number
16 Feb 2017
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Issue: the changes in media technologies have made it easier for marketers, governments, and criminals to invade your privacy: privacy- secluding of personal information by individuals about themselves. Individuals do not want to share all information about himself or herself with everyone: a person might want to share some bits of information with some people but not with others. If someone gains access to your name, date of birth, and social security number they can steal your identity. In 2011, synantec corporation that markets norton utilities computer software estimated that there are over one million viruses. Non-criminal threats to your privacy: monitoring, everytime you use your computer, your activities are being monitored. Isps are especially wary of spammers because a sudden inundation of hundreds of thousands of messages can allow their systems down: another form of spamming is with the use of adware, which is advertising supported software.
