Digital Communication 2001A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Web 2.0, Antivirus Software, User-Generated Content

• School: Western University
• Department: Digital Communication
• Course: Digital Communication 2001A/B
• Professor: Carolyn Guertin

Document Summary

The internet, the world wide web and other forms of networked communication were born of the desire to share and make information free to everyone. Unfortunately, once you can access everything, it also means others can access your data too: what you are interested in, what you have searched, and where you have been is all available to government, commerce, scam artists. Mission: to intercept, decipher, analyse and store vast amounts of the world"s communications from satellites and underground and undersea cables of international, foreign and domestic networks. Privacy is a fairly recent concept, dating back about 150 years. From tribal life to the medieval marriage bed, life was lived in the company of others. The proliferation of screens from miniature ones displaying text messages on handheld devices to the large ones in public spaces allows for new kinds of i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374)al (cid:373)o(cid:271)ilities that use pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) spa(cid:272)es fo(cid:396) (cid:858)p(cid:396)i(cid:448)ate(cid:859) pu(cid:396)poses.