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Privacy issues on the Internet

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2003
An increasing number of people are using the Internet, in many instances unaware of the information being collected about them. In contrast, other people concerned about the privacy and security issues are limiting their use of the Internet, abstaining from purchasing products online.
W. Chung, J. Paynter
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The commodification of privacy on the Internet

Science and Public Policy, 2013
This paper critically explores, from a political economy perspective on public policy, the commodification of privacy on the Internet as a practical-economic and a discursive process. On the one hand, dominant online business models conflict structurally with users' need for privacy and the users themselves work on their own powerlessness in this ...
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Internet of things and privacy

2021
Today the Internet of Things (IoT) empowers our lives, simplifying interaction and services in many fields including smart homes and cities, telemedicine and healthcare, transportation, security and social life. In many IoT applications, personal data are automatically collected and stored in cloud systems, processed and used for purposes such as ...
V Amenta, M C Buzzi, M Buzzi, A Montemurro   +3 more
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Internet Privacy Database

2012 Fourth International Symposium on Information Science and Engineering, 2012
Internet privacy has become an overlooked yet essential part our everyday lives. At any given moment, while browsing a web page, your identity could be stolen leaving you in thousands of dollars in debt. The purpose of this paper is to aid the general public to become more aware of these issues and the laws pertaining to them.
Maung Maung Htay, Chen-Chi Shing, Andrew Powell, Joan Suresh Kumar   +3 more
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Privacy in the Internet of Things

2017
Internet of Things technology is rapidly gaining popularity, not only in industrial and commercial environments, but also in personal life by means of smart devices at home. The Internet of Things (IoT) spawn new businesses and make buildings, cities and transport smarter.
Jayashree Kanniappan, Babu Rajendiran
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Privacy and the Internet

2011
With the advent of the Internet, a number of issues have surfaced that are affecting our society positively, negatively and confusingly at breakneck speeds. The issues surrounding an individual’s right to privacy on the Internet are one such example. Affording an individual a right to privacy is most definitely a unique right preserving the quality of ...
Scott Chapman, Gurpreet S. Dhillon
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OSINT, the Internet and Privacy

2012 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference, 2012
In just 17 years the Internet has transformed practically every facet of modern life. The launch of Mosaic, the first web browser in 1993 was the catalyst for a communication revolution, whose implications are still unraveling. The Web was always intended to be a two-way multi-user publishing system undermining state controlled one way broadcasting ...
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Law and privacy on the Internet

Proceedings of GLOBECOM'96. 1996 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2002
This paper examines the legal parameters that regulate Internet communications in the United States and includes the following arguments: Senate hearings on privacy, censorship and government control of Internet communications, the current debate regarding the exportation of encryption software and the laws that govern encryption as part of a national ...
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Privacy in Communications on the Internet

PIK - Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation, 2011
Abstract Privacy on the Internet is becoming a concern as an already significant and ever growing part of our daily activities is carried out online. While cryptography can be used to protect the integrity and confidentiality of contents of communication, everyone along the route on which a packet is traveling can still observe the ...
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Guarding Privacy on the Internet

Global Business Review, 2006
Undoubtedly, the government, business houses and employers have a legitimate need to collect data and to monitor people, but their practices often threaten an individual's privacy. Since a vast amount of data can be collected on the Internet, and due to its global ramifications, the FTC had identified ‘core’ principles of privacy which are widely ...
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