Computer Privacy

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In this Information Age, information is business. As mechanisms for information retrieval, computers erode an individual's right to privacy. The paper shows that if the information gained by other parties is misused, we can become financially and psychologically vulnerable. The paper questions whether we can prevent the unauthorized access to our personal information, or whether we should even be concerned about it.

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"Cookies contain a variety of information, including the name of the website that issued them, passwords, and user names. They also can contain credit card numbers. Cookies are supposedly only retrievable by the site that issues them, and usually financial information (e.g., credit card numbers) is transmitted over secure networks. But how secure is secure? Computer hackers who can break into company files or bank records could almost certainly tap into a secure network and retrieve personal and financial information by decoding the encrypted information. Should we really worry though about the slight chance of this happening?"

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