Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Computerized hiring
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What is ethics?
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Technology trends that raise ethical issues
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You generate digital information about
YOURSELF
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You generate digital information about
YOURSELF
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You generate digital information about
YOURSELF
Put together and mined properly, this information
could reveal
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You generate digital information about
YOURSELF
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You generate digital information about
YOURSELF
The use of computers to combine data from multiple sources
and create digital dossiers of detailed information on
individuals is called profiling.
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You generate digital information about
YOURSELF
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Information Rights: Privacy and Freedom in
the Internet Age
Informed Consent
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Internet Challenges to Privacy
Cookies
When the visitor returns to a site that has stored a cookie, the
website software searches the visitor’s computer, finds the cookie,
and knows what that person has done in the past.
It may also update the cookie, depending on the activity during the
visit. In this way, the site can customize its content for each visitor’s
interests.
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Internet Challenges to Privacy
Cookies
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Internet Challenges to Privacy
Cookies
Website owners can also combine the data they have gathered from
cookies and other website monitoring tools with personal data from
other sources, such as offline data collected from surveys or paper
catalog purchases, to develop very detailed profiles of their visitors.
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Internet Challenges to Privacy
Web beacons / bugs
Web beacons , also called web bugs (or simply tracking files), are tiny
software programs that keep a record of users’ online clickstreams.
They report this data back to whomever owns the tracking file
invisibly embedded in e-mail messages and web pages that are
designed to monitor the behavior of the user visiting a website or
sending e-mail.
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Internet Challenges to Privacy
Web beacons / bugs
50 sites
3,180
5 times
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Internet Challenges to Privacy
Web beacons / bugs
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Internet Challenges to Privacy
Spyware
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Internet Challenges to Privacy
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Internet Challenges to Privacy
A recent study found that 88 percent of 400,000 websites had at
least one Google tracking bug.
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Internet Challenges to Privacy
Opt in model √
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Internet Challenges to Privacy
Technical Solutions
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Property Rights: Intellectual Property
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Challenges to Intellectual Property Rights
39%
Music Books Video
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Computer-Related Liability Problems
Who is liable for any economic harm caused to individuals or
businesses whose credit cards were compromised?
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System Quality: Data Quality and
System Errors
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System Quality: Data Quality and
System Errors
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System Quality: Data Quality and
System Errors
Three principal sources of poor system performance are -
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Quality of Life: Equity, Access, and
Boundaries
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Quality of Life: Equity, Access, and
Boundaries
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