NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Computer Virus, Tim Wu, Icann
14 Apr 2016
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Unit 17: communicaions technologies, (part iv: internet management and control) Privacy in cyberspace: controlling your personal info in cyberspace. Social engineering: the pracice of manipulaing or deceiving an individual to obtain private or conidenial data or informaion from them. 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 informaion about the user between visits. Beneits: ime savers since you don"t have to re-enter informaion each ime you visit same site. Behavioral adverising: proiles are built from this informaion and then used to market speciic products to you. Flash cookies, super cookies: hidden, hard to ind and diicult to delete. Web bugs (image iles on a web page or email that are virtually invisible) and browsing history. Privacy can be compromised when combining anonymous website proile with easily obtained personal informaion through sns.
