"What is digital footprint? We are incorporating the use of technologies in everything we do and doing so we are leaving a trail of our .."
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Goal: The overall goal for this adventure is to help you understand how you project yourself to world on the Internet. Specifically, we want to help you: learn more about the many ways in which you leave a trail of your presence on the webunderstand how your presence is often permanent and beyond your ability to change or deleteand, on the positive side, how these facts provide you an opportunity to create a positive, on-going public presence about yourself as a digital citizen
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The use of such tracking tools may be unknown to most users, according to a research paper. The methods—known as canvas fingerprinting, evercookies and cookie syncing—are in use across a range of popular websites. The findings, first reported by Pro Publica, show how such tracking is important for targeted advertising but that the privacy risks may be unknown to all but the most sophisticated web users. Profiling Web users, such as knowing what Web pages a person has visited before, is a central component of targeted advertising, which matches advertisements with topics a person may be interested in. It is key to charging higher rates for advertisements. Cookies, or data files stored by a browser, have long been used for tracking, but cookies can be easily blocked or deleted, which diminishes their usefulness. Learn more: - http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/privacy-in-the-digital-world-shouldnt-we-talk-about-it/ Via Gust MEES
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July 22, 2014 10:16 AM
The methods—known as canvas fingerprinting, evercookies and cookie syncing—are in use across a range of popular websites. The findings, first reported by Pro Publica, show how such tracking is important for targeted advertising but that the privacy risks may be unknown to all but the most sophisticated web users. Profiling Web users, such as knowing what Web pages a person has visited before, is a central component of targeted advertising, which matches advertisements with topics a person may be interested in. It is key to charging higher rates for advertisements. Cookies, or data files stored by a browser, have long been used for tracking, but cookies can be easily blocked or deleted, which diminishes their usefulness. Learn more: - http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Canvas+Fingerprinting - http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/privacy-in-the-digital-world-shouldnt-we-talk-about-it/ |
