01:198:110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Internet Privacy, Computer And Network Surveillance, Ransomware

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: 01:198:110
• Professor: Alan Belowich

Document Summary

Privacy- individual"s right to keep certain information private; privacy is about informational self-determination; it"s not always to self-determine what"s kept private in today"s age/technology. Security- a tool to build privacy; security technology allows individuals to decide to protect their privacy to be enforced; People"s rights vs privacy - school or employer internet monitoring vs individual"s right to privacy (really don"t have many rights, give them away when on the internet) Spyware - any software - that covertly gathers user information through the user"s internet connection without his or her knowledge. Very difficult to enforce laws against in practice - hard to find hard evidence connecting individual companies to their spyware product. (privacy is basically a thing of the past) Malware- malicious software" - malware v virus - the 1st examples of malware were known as viruses - virus is a type of malware but a malware isn"t always a virus.