NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Insurance Number, Phishing, Voice Over Ip
9 Sep 2016
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Trottier (2012): social media privacy issues focus on the idea of surveillance, where users watch over each other as opposed to communicating directly with one another . Debatin et al. (2009): ubiqutous technologies over time are invisible and taken for granted by user how may this impact privacy: online privacy issues. Social engineering: the practice of manipulating or deceiving an individual to obtain private or confidential data or information from them. Examples: phishing (emails), pharming (websites), vishing (voip) Cookies: when an individual visits a website, the website may place a cookie (a small piece of text) on his or her hard drive which saves information about the user between visits. Benefits: time savers since you don"t have to re-enter information each time you visit same site. Behavioral advertising: profiles are built from this information and then used to market specific products to you. Flash cookies, super cookies: hidden, hard to find and difficult to delete.
