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Part 1:
1. For the first article I searched internet security and for the second article I did internet
privacy.
2. I used the Proquest database through the CCBC Library website.
3. I chose this database because it said it covered a large database of general topics and it
was very user friendly and easy to navigate compared to some of the other databases I
tried to use.
4. #1 APA Citation
Akhter, S. H. (2014). Privacy concern and online transactions: The impact of internet
selfefficacy and internet involvement. The Journal of Consumer Marketing, 31(2),
118-125. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JCM-06-2013-0606
5. #2 APA Citation
Erdem, S. A. (2011). Maintaining the security in internet marketing: Moving from
biometrics
to behaviometrics. The Review of Business Information Systems, 15(3), 43-47.
Retrieved

from http://search.proquest.com/docview/885916205?

accountid=3784
6.

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Article #1

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Article #2

Part 2: Current Events Article

a) Privacy Concerns Raised Over Kids Apps and Websites
This article pertains to data collected and distributed on kids sites. This is specifically
about what is collected and what is provided to third parties. This outlines information
about the accessibility to outside sites that aren't labeled as kids sites and the ease or
difficulty of use for children to access them, some in as easy as one click. They are
currently looking into the data intake as there are so many data breaches lately and they
are trying to look at how to keep our children safe.
b) Lomas, N. (2015, September 3). Privacy Concerns Raised Over Kids Apps
And Websites. Retrieved September 19, 2015.

Part 3: Internet Article

a) I searched internet privacy articles 2015
b) Essaid, R. (2015, April 26). Internet Privacy Is The Wrong Conversation. Retrieved
September 19, 2015.
c) I used google, yahoo, and bing as the search engines for this step.

d)
Number of
Results Returned
Relevancy
(Good, Better,
Best)

Google. Com
791,000,000

Yahoo.com
1,410,000,000

Bing.Com
1,570,000,000

Best Seems to
produce the most
reliable results

Good

Better

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from relevant sites

first
Better

Good- smaller
font

Best- Highlights the

words in the title
that are used in
search criteria

Part 4: TRAPP Internet Article

a) Time- April 26th, 2015
b) Relevance- The article is about how information is being used behind the scenes, when a
consumer/web browser uses certain websites or applications, to solicit the user to specific
advertisements and information.
c) Authority Rami Essaid who owns a bot detection and mitigation company. He would
understand and fully recognize what would simplify and bring clarity to information
sharing/tracking.
d) Accurate The evidence has not been supported for accuracy but is simply an opinion
about Facebooks current European legal situation.
e) Purpose This article was created to bring awareness to the aggressive tracking that is
currently taking place to push advertising to traffic to websites. The article shows biased
opinion towards creating transparency verse government implementation of laws on
tracking.

Part 5: Comparison of Internet Article and Database Article #1

Ease of Access
The database was easier to search than the regular internet, however there are obviously
many, many more articles on the internet when you are not exclusively looking for scholarly
articles. Both are relatively easy to search with a specific topic, the difference again being

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looking for the scholarly article. On the database it is important to also select full text because
some of the articles only provide abstracts unless you are a member of their specific site, this
makes access more difficult than the internet.
Timeliness
The scholarly articles are definitely more difficult to find in a current nature. It has
always been my understanding that scholarly articles are considered timely if they have been
written/reviewed in the last few years, specifically last six years I believe. As far as using the
internet to find current articles the date or month that is being looked for can be put into the
search box and many articles can be retrieved in that time frame. So when searching for currency
of events the internet is definitely easier than the database.
Authority
The scholarly articles on the database are usually written by someone or a group of
people considered to be experts in the area of writing and then the articles are usually reviewed
or edited by a governing body or organization. The information provided is considered to be
factual and relevant, whereas internet information depending on what type of site it is found on is
considered to be much less reliable. Even articles written in newspapers or specific websites are
usually just of opinion and much less fact. They may have direct quotes from experts in the field
on information supplied by them, but the person writing the article is simply a writer not an
expert in the field themselves. Internet sites have notoriously been known to provide false
information as well.