Skills: none Concepts: log, IP address, URL, packet header and body, geo-location, anonymity, proxy server, advertising signals, hacking, social graph This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Internet privacy
Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Internet skills – Application development – Content creation – User skills
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Data packets Client Server
To: From: Header: Body: Two parts of an Internet protocol (IP) data packet
Geo-location
Who are you? IP address + time and date + ISP log → Internet account holder
Anonymity
Proxy server Through a proxy Normal connection Proxy server
Google profile Advertising signals Language Location Google searches Google plus 1 votes Gmail messages Calendar entries Facebook likes Product reviews Tweets Facebook timeline Facebook posts Google plus posts Blog posts Blog comments Video uploads Image uploads
Tracking what your friends do
What do you get in return for your information?
Hacking
Summary
Self-study questions 1.Criminals use proxy servers to hide their activity. Should we make it a crime to operate a proxy server or are there times when anonymity is desirable? 2.Do you mind servers like the one at SurveyGizmo.com gathering data on you? 3.Can you think of reasons you might want data to be gathered on you? 4.Do you pay attention to your Facebook privacy settings or did you just accept the default setting? 5.How do questions of privacy differ between cultures and political systems? 6.Who pays for aggregation of data about a user and what is the benefit?
Resources A geo-location service: Two personal profile aggregators: