[citw150] Re: Assignment3 3, Question 6 (Societal Issues)
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- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:58:21 -0600
This is a very important issue to consider, as in this day and age, identity
theft is becoming more and more prevalent. When people have such easy access
to your personal information over the internet, it becomes very possible that
you will be negatively affected. Even with something as simple as a telephone
number, people can steal your identity over the internet.
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Brian Wieber
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> From: Stanislav Khachaturov <stas_khachaturov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2005/02/03 Thu PM 11:19:37 CST
> To: citw150@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [citw150] Assignment3 3, Question 6 (Societal Issues)
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> One issue that most of us find important is internet privacy. Just like
> personal privacy, internet privacy should be given the same value. For
> instance would you want someone you don?t know to know what you bought, where
> you went, who visited your house, peek at your window? I would imagine not.
> Unfortunately some programs as ?spyware? provide that type of information
> possible for ?someone-out-there?. The scary thing is that some of those
> programs would not even get detected on your computer by virus scan programs
> or even some specifically designed ?Spyware Removal? software. I think that
> those issues should be taken very seriously under consideration, and the only
> ones that are allowed ?in extreme cases? to access your information are
> government officials.
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> Luckily something is being done on this issue. For details please visit the
> following link:
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,66407,00.html
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> Stanislav Khachaturov
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