COM-224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Digital Divide, Phishing, Long Term Ecological Research Network
27 Sep 2016
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Google - own applications and has bought other internet ad companies! Microsoft - best silly web browser, owns hotmail and other providers! Yahoo - dominant search engine before google, im, email, shopping, continues to buy companies to increase its online offerings! E-commerce - buying things of ine ( rst one was amazon. com) ! Cookies - track the browser habits, ***information pro les that are automatically collected and transferred between computer servers whenever users access websites, target users for ads, ! Spyware - information gathering software often secretly bundles with free downloaded software, if you get an email saying free microsoft program (do not open it or. Us patriot act - grants power to law enforcement to check online information! Probable cause is not needed for computer, do not have to show cause you have to give your computer, cannot do it to your phone !
